Lisin

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the family name, see Lissin

Antares compared to the sun .

Lisin ( Babylonian ^d Li ₉ -si ₄ ) was the name of a Sumerian goddess who lived from the first millennium BC. Was also equated with the star Antares in the constellation Scorpio with the note "standing in the chest of the Scorpio".

Lisin counted since the first millennium BC. BC also to the stars of Nabu and was the content of mythological - astrological texts from the Borsippa region . It is said, for example, that people should pray to her with all their possessions when she ascends in order to avoid future calamities.

Lisin has been a deity since the third millennium BC. And was the worshiped goddess of the third month ( May / June ) in the Lagaš calendar . The exact origin and locality of Lisin is unclear; possibly she was based in both Sirara and Adab with her brother Agiši . In the texts of Abu-Salabich , Lisin is also called "mother".

literature

• Hermann Hunger: Lisin . In: Dietz-Otto Edzard u. a .: Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology , Vol. 7: Libanukšabaš - Medicine . de Gruyter, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-11-010437-7 , p. 32.