Gatumdu
Gatumdag (also Gatumdug ) is in the Sumerian city of Lagash -based mother goddess . She is the daughter of the chief god of the Sumerian pantheon , An , and mother of the chief goddess of Lagasch and Girsu , Baba . En-metena , the first builder of her temple, calls her "mother of Lagasch".
She has a special relationship with Prince Gudea , who calls her "my mother, [...] my father".
literature
- Erich Ebeling : Gatumdug . In: Ernst Friedrich Weidner , Wolfram von Soden (ed.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie . tape 3 : Fabel – Gyges and addendum . de Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-11-003705-X , p. 251 .
- 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 .