Nungal

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Nungal ( Sumerian Dingir NUN.GAL ) is around 2600 BC. Chr. Still an independent goddess and means mistress of the prison .

Little information is available on the earlier meaning and genealogy of Nungal. A separate cult temple stood in Sippar . In the later Ur-III period , Nungal is used as a special form of Ninegal and Inanna and takes over the following genealogy: Daughter of father An and mother Ereschkigal .

Nungal was mentioned in association with offenders who were placed in the healing hands of the Nungal before the actual trial . The Ekur prison was seen as a ritual place of healing . It was up to Nungal to persuade the first offenders who renounced their gods to repentance, repentance and insight. With the end of the symbolic cleansing , the perpetrators were led to the gate of the Nungal . This was followed by a judicial show trial before the main gods. After the reconciliation and repentance, the accused were released as cured. Other primary offenses were also given to Nungal as the goddess of judgment. Parts of the Codex Hammurapi ( Hammurapi I. ) were therefore associated with the gates of the Nungal . Nungal has her own hymn dedicated to her justice and judgment.

literature

  • Geetā De Clercq, Gernot Wilhelm : The goddess Ninegal / Belet-ekallim according to the ancient oriental sources of the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC. Chr. Dissertation, Julius Maximilians University, Würzburg 2004.