Nanše
Nanše ( Nansche, also Nina ) is a Sumerian deity and important deity in the pantheon of the Lagaš state .
Nanše was the daughter of Enki and the sister of Ningirsu and Nisaba . As the daughter of Enki, the goddess, whose cult was cultivated in Nina -Siraran, was the goddess of fortune-telling , the interpretation of dreams and the divine order. Originally she was a goddess of springs and water courses. Her daughters were Ninmaḫ and Nunmar , their son Ninkur .
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 .