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- May 5th, 2008 by sabrina. Ninsun is the Sumerian Goddess of dreams and cows. Married to King Lugalbanda, she is the mother of the hero Gilgamesh, who was said to be two-thirds divine (from his Goddess mother) and one-third human (from his mortal father). She is also the mother of Dumuzi by the God Enki.
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Who are the Anunnaki? Enlil/Ellil/Bel. The king of the Anunnaki, Enlil is the storm/wind god, also essentially the same as the later Bel or Baal, the Canaanite sun god/solar hero. Enlil and Ninlil give birth to the moon god Nanna, a major astral deity of the Sumerians, who was called Sin in Babylonian.
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- Exalted one. The name of a Goddess in Irish mythology. She was the daughter of Dagda (the Allfather), and married to Bres (king of Fomorians), for whom she birthed a son, Ruadán. Brigid has many roles: She is the Goddess of fertility, wisdom, inspiration, good health and the Sacred Flame.
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The Ancient Egyptian Gods Some of the Most Important Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. Amun was a creator god who became a national god after the pharaohs moved their capital to the city of Thebes. He was later combined with Ra, who was a sun-god, a creator god and the king of the gods.The people saw Amun-Ra as the creative power behind the existence of all life. He was primarily considered to be the god of the pharaohs and represented wind, fertility and secrets. Ra is the ancient Egyptian sun god.He is the father of the gods and is usually depicted with the body of a human and the head of a falcon.xcept for a brief period of time when Akhenaten tried to instill a monotheistic dedication to one god, Egypt was ruled by numerous gods and goddess. The ancient Egyptian religion was polytheistic, meaning the ancient Egyptians worshiped many gods (there are about 2000 known gods and goddesses).
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Fluid-Flow Engineering a branch of pneumatic and hydraulic automation. Fluid-flow devices may use a gas, including air, or a liquid and other gases as the working fluid. The operating principles of most pneumatic and hydraulic elements and devices in fluid-flow engineering are identical (seeFLUIDICS). In some cases, however, fluidics makes effective use of the specific properties of the flow of gases.
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- All Sumerian cities recognized a number of gods in common, including Anu the sky god, Enlil the lord of storms, and Ishtar the morning and evening star. The gods seemed hopelessly violent and unpredictable, and one's life a period of slavery to their whims.
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An/Anu (god) An/Anu (god) Mesopotamian sky-god, one of the supreme deities; known as An in Sumerian and Anu in Akkadian. A stele of the Assyrian king Šamši-Adad V (c.815 BCE), making obeisance to the symbols of five deities, including (top) the horned crown of Anu (BM 118892, photo (c) The British Museum).
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Niobe Was Daughter of Tantalus and the Queen of Thebes Who Was Niobe: In Greek mythology, Niobe, who was the daughter of Tantalus, the queen of Thebes, and the wife of King Amphion, foolishly boasted that she was more fortunate than Leto (Latona, for the Romans), the mother of Artemis and Apollo, because she had more children than Leto.urial of the Children: In the Iliad, attributed to Homer, the children of Niobe, lying in their own blood, are unburied for nine days because Zeus turned the people of Thebes to stone. On the tenth day the gods buried them and Niobe resumed her life by eating once again.
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Zecharia Sitchin And the identity of Ishtar as the planet Venus, a central feature of Mesopotamian religion, is nowhere mentioned in the book—instead Sitchin arbitrarily assigns to Venus another deity from Enuma Elish, and reserves Ishtar for a role as a female astronaut.
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AINE, IRISH LOVE GODDESS AND FAERIE QUEEN aine, irish love goddess and faerie queen Aine was both a Celtic Goddess and a Faery Queen. She has been known by other names, such as the Lady of the Lake, the Goddess of the Earth and Nature, and the Goddess of Luck and Magick.
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ishtar The name Ishtar is Semitic for the goddess Inanna of Sumeria. sacred prostitution was part of the religion as Ishtar was the courtesan of the gods ... Ishtar possessed a litany of weapons and one of her totems was the lion ...nanna/Ishtar was known as the Eye Goddess and she had Eye Temples. One of the oldest of these Eye Temples, dating back to about 3000 BCE, is at Tell Brak in eastern Syria. Found inside were thousands of figurines of the Eye Goddess, each with staring, wide, owl-like eyes which are coiled like snakes.
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What is annunaki? The Anunnaki (also transcribed as: Anunaki, Anunna, Anunnaku, Ananaki and other variations) are a group of deities in ancient Mesopotamian cultures (i.e., Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian).n gratitude, the Anunnaki, the Great Gods, built Esagila, the splendid: They raised high the head of Esagila equaling Apsu. Having built a stage-tower as high as Apsu, they set up in it an abode for Marduk, Enlil, Ea.. Then they built their own shrines.
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Definitions &Translations A Yogini is the sacred feminine force made incarnate: the goddesses of mythology (Lakshmi, Parvati, Durga, Kali) as well as the ordinary human woman who is enlightened, both having exuberant passion, spiritual powers and deep insight, capable of giving birth to saints, peacemakers, and Yogis.
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Inanna by Wikipedia Inanna by Wikipedia. Inanna (/ɪˈnænə/ or /ɪˈnɑːnə/; Cuneiform:  DMUš3; Sumerian: Inanna; Akkadian: Ištar; Unicode: U+12239) is the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and warfare, and goddess of the E-Anna temple at the city of Uruk, her main centre.
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- Naunet-Goddess of the OceanNef-Serpent GodNehebkau-Scorpion God and Guardian of the Underworld Gates.Neith-The Great Weaver Goddess, upset her and she threatens tounpick the woven universe. Nekhabed-Royal Protection GoddessNeper-God of GrainNephthys-Goddess of the Dead.
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Who are the Anunnaki? One of Marduk's 50 names was Nibiru or Nebiru, in which Robert Temple in The Sirius Mystery sees the Egyptian term Neb-Heru, meaning Lord of the sun.. The god Horus or Heru is indeed largely a sun god, depicted as a hawk with wings outstretched and the solar orb on his head.
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Norse Goddess Names Sjofn In Norse myth, Sjofn is the goddess who inspired human passion, she was also a goddess concerned with causing men and women to think of love. It was her duty to stop fights between married couples. Skadi A giantess, called the 'snow-shoe goddess', and the embodiment of winter. She is the wife of the god Njord.
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- The Akkadian/Sumerian poet Enheduanna (2285-2250 BCE) is the world’s first author known by name and was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad (Sargon the Great, 2334-2279 BCE). Whether Enheduanna was, in fact, a blood relative of Sargon’s or the title was figurative is not known.
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ishtar Inanna/Ishtar as the Goddess of Love, was known for her power of fertility, which was shown by her caduceus wand. Inanna/Ishtar was known as the Eye Goddess and she had Eye Temples. One of the oldest of these Eye Temples, dating back to about 3000 BCE, is at Tell Brak in eastern Syria.
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paleothea Alcyone, also said Halcyone, is the Goddess of the Sea, the Moon, Calm, and Tranquility. There was also a Pleiade named Alcyone (check out the Nymphs page for that). She was the daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx.
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Dawn Goddess Follow the link to find out more about this Goddess. Hekt (Egyptian) - A frog-headed, Egyptian Goddess who is midwife to the sun each morning. Ostara (Germanic) - Her name means East or morning light, she is also Goddess of Spring. Large bonfires were lit at dawn on the spring Equinox to honor this Goddess. Tefnut (Egyptian) - Goddess of morning dew, linked to the East where the sun begins its travels across the skies.
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Tefnut Tefnut. Tefnut (Tefenet, Tefnet) was an ancient Egyptian goddess of moisture, but was strongly associated with both the moon and the sun. She was known as both the left (moon) and the right (sun) Eyes of Ra and represented moisture (as a lunar goddess) and dryness (or the absence of moisture, as a solar goddess).efnut was generally depicted as a lioness or a woman with a lion's head. Less often, she was depicted as a woman. She always wears a solar disk and Uraeus, and carries a sceptre (representing power) and the ankh (representing the breath of life).
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Enheduanna Enheduanna is at once a mystical and heroic figure, one whose image may be destined to take hold of the popular imagination in an era of emerging feminism and the reclaiming of ancient feminine images. She is the world's oldest known author whose works were written in cuneiform approximately 4300 years ago.
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ishtar The evil was known as he dragon Kur. COWS Like Isis and Hathor of Egypt and Io and Ionia, Inanna/Ishtar was a Cow Mother Goddess. She, like Kybele/Cybele, was pictured with bovine horns or as cows with lunar horns. Inanna/Ishtar, because of her association with the Moon, is also linked to the horns of a bull.nanna/Ishtar was known as the Eye Goddess and she had Eye Temples. One of the oldest of these Eye Temples, dating back to about 3000 BCE, is at Tell Brak in eastern Syria. Found inside were thousands of figurines of the Eye Goddess, each with staring, wide, owl-like eyes which are coiled like snakes.
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- Hathor, Egyptian goddess known as the mistress of the west; Nepthys, Egyptian goddess of the underworld, known as the mistress of the temple; Despoina, a Greek title for the mistress of the house, applied to various women and goddesses; Potnia theron, or mistress of the animals, a title applied by Homer to the Greek goddess Artemis
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Dawn Goddess Dawn Goddess List. Other Goddesses associated with the break of day include: Aja (Sumerian) - Associated with the eastern mountains where she helped the sun into the sky at the beginning of the new day. Astarte (Phoenician) - Goddess of the morning star. Her role was later assimilated by the Goddess Ishtar.