Gula (deity)

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Gula is an Akkadian goddess of salvation. She is the wife of Ninurta through her later equation with Baba . Their symbolic animal was the dog . Gula were consecrated on the 9th and 10th day of each month. Since the first half of the 2nd millennium BC In addition to Baba, she was also equated with Nin'insina .

title

  • Belit'ili, queen of the gods
  • Great mistress
  • compassionate mother "who lives in pure heaven (Excelsior)
  • Life giver

cult

Not very many hymns have come down to Gula. A hymn invokes their help against the angry city god. She is asked to intervene with Marduk on behalf of the supplicant. Another prayer calls on her because bad omens have occurred, the supplicant who raises his hand to her had a dream and an eclipse of the moon had occurred and the supplicant is afraid. A temple for Gula was excavated in 1972 by McGuire Gibson of the University of Chicago in Nippur . The building dates from between 1600 and 1200 BC. BC, but the five building layers extend to 3000 BC. BC back. The believers sacrificed iron and earthen dog figures and anthropomorphic figurines to the goddess , which point to a diseased part of the body.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. George A. Barton , The Problem of the Origin and early History of the Deity Nin-Ib (Nin-Urta, Nin-Urash). Journal of the American Oriental Society 46, 1926, 231
  2. ^ CJ Mullo-Weir, Four Hymns to Gula, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1, 1929, p. 4, note 1
  3. a b c C. J. Mullo-Weir, Four Hymns to Gula, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1, 1929, 3
  4. ^ A b C. J. Mullo-Weir, Four Hymns to Gula, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1, 1929, 6
  5. ^ B. Bower, Iraq Temple may be ancient Medical Center. Science News 137/26, 1990, 405