Damkina

Damkina is Enki's wife — Damgalnuna in Sumerian, 'great wife of the prince' — and she matters most for whom she bore. Nanshe and Asalluhi are her children in the Sumerian material, and in Enuma Elish she and Ea produce Marduk, which makes her the mother of the god who ends up ruling everything. Her cult sat at Eridu, Enki's city, and at Malgium. Asalluhi is already in this registry, absorbed into the Marduk record.

Children

• Nanshe

Domains

• motherhood

Relations

• consort of: EnkiWife of Enki, with him at Eridu.Reference treatment of Damgalnuna/Damkina as the wife of Enki. (secondary)
• mother of: NansheMother of Nanshe.Reference treatment: among the children of Enki and Damgalnuna were Nanshe and Asalluhi. (secondary)
• mother of: MardukMother of Marduk by Ea in Enuma Elish.Enuma Elish, tablet I, in which Marduk is born to Ea and Damkina. (primary)

Sources

• Damkina, Sumerian Damgalnuna, is the wife of Enki with cult centres at Eridu and Malgium, mother of Nanshe and Asalluhi, and in Enuma Elish the mother of Marduk.: Reference treatment of Damgalnuna/Damkina, her marriage to Enki, her cult centres and her children. (secondary); Enuma Elish, tablet I. (primary)