This goddess got her current name after her son defeated his enemies and lifted up rocks of the uncultivated hills.
A temple sacred to this deity is the brick where she gives birth and is supposedly inlaid with a tower of "lapis lazuli" according to the sacred Hymn at Kesh Temple. In another tradition, this woman is the consort of Sulpa'e, the "lord of the wild beasts". In one story, this figure is called Damgalnunna by her lover, but she abandons that lover on an island often identified as Bahrain until a fox messenger convinces her to go back to him. This goddess gives birth to Azimua and Enshag to alleviate the pain of her consort after he ate eight trees and eight different organs started to hurt him. This goddess got her current name after her son defeated his enemies and lifted up rocks of the uncultivated hills. Three kings left inscriptions that claimed they were nourished by the milk of, for 10 points, what Sumerian mother goddess, who was the consort of Enki and the mother of the similarly named Ninurta?
A temple sacred to this deity is the brick where she gives birth and is supposedly inlaid with a tower of "lapis lazuli" according to the sacred Hymn at Kesh Temple.
Ninhursag