Damu

Damu was a Sumerian deity. Like his mother Nin'insina, he was a healing deity. From her he received the Me , the "divine powers of healing". Sometimes he was portrayed as androgynous . Its main place of worship was in Isin .

literature

• Helmut Freydank u. a .: Lexicon of the Old Orient. Egypt * India * China * Western Asia. VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-928127-40-3 .
• Brigitte Groneberg : The gods of the Mesopotamia. Cults, myths, epics. Artemis & Winkler, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7608-2306-8 .