Uraš (goddess)

Uraš (also Urasch , "earth") is a Sumerian earth goddess. She is considered to be the first consort of Ans until she was replaced (or equated) with Ki in ancient Babylonian times . Uraš is through An the mother of Nininsina .

As Ki ( below , earth ) she is the daughter of the Sumerian mother Nammu and sister of her husband An. Your child is Enlil . Later on, Ki becomes Nintu , who was eventually ousted as An's wife by Inanna .

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 .