Gunura

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Gunura was a Mesopotamian goddess of Sumerian origin, known from the pantheon of Isin.[1] She was a daughter of the medicine goddess Ninisina and her husband Pabilsag, and sister of Damu.[1][2] The earliest attestations of her come from the Ur III period.[1]

She was known by the epithet dumu-é-a, translated as "child of the house"[3] or "daughter of the house,"[1] which was also applied to the weather goddess Shala and the love goddess Nanaya.[4] Her individual role cannot be presently established, as in known texts she always appears alongside other members of her family.[5]

She was worshiped in Ninisina's main temple in Isin, and according to the late Assyrian takultu text also in Assur.[1] According to Joan Goodnick Westenholz, she was not associated with Ninisina's Syrian and Akkadian counterpart Ninkarrak.[3] She does however appear in an Old Babylonian liturgical text alongside both her mother and the analogous goddess from Nippur, Nintinugga,[3] and in Assur she was associated with Gula.[1] She is also attested in a text describing a cultic journey of her mother Ninisina to Nippur, in which she and her brother Damu are characterized as "good protective spirits."[6] Personal names invoking her are known, one example being Ur-Gunura.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Edzard 1971, p. 701.
  2. ^ Wagensonner 2008, p. 286.
  3. ^ a b c Asher-Greve & Westenholz 2013, p. 84.
  4. ^ Schwemer 2001, p. 171.
  5. ^ Edzard 1971, pp. 701–702.
  6. ^ Wagensonner 2008, p. 279.

Bibliography[]

  • Asher-Greve, Julia M.; Westenholz, Joan G. (2013). Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources (PDF). ISBN 978-3-7278-1738-0.
  • Edzard, Dietz-Otto (1971), "Gunura", Reallexikon der Assyriologie, retrieved 2022-02-08
  • Schwemer, Daniel (2001). Die Wettergottgestalten Mesopotamiens und Nordsyriens im Zeitalter der Keilschriftkulturen: Materialien und Studien nach den schriftlichen Quellen (in German). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-447-04456-1. OCLC 48145544.
  • Wagensonner, Klaus (2008). "Nin-Isina(k)s Journey to Nippur A bilingual divine journey revisited". Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna. 98: 277–294. ISSN 0084-0076. JSTOR 23861637. Retrieved 2022-02-08.
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