Haya

Haya was in the registry only as a sentence inside Nisaba's record — 'with Ḫaya as consort' — which is exactly the shape of gap this pass exists to close. He is the god of scribes on the administrative side: an accountant and an archivist, and also, oddly and specifically, a doorkeeper. His temples are Ur III, in the cities whose bureaucratic archives survive in tens of thousands of tablets, and he is married to the goddess who holds both writing and grain. Between them they cover the whole of what a Sumerian scribe actually did.

Children

• Ninlil

Domains

• writing
• harvest

Relations

• spouse: NisabaHusband of Nisaba. The pairing is coherent: she is the goddess of writing and of grain, he is the divine accountant with a grain association, and accountancy for grain is what writing was invented to do.Oracc AMGG s.v. Haya: husband of the goddess Nisaba. (secondary)
• father of: NinlilFather of Sud of Shuruppak, who is Ninlil under her pre-marriage name — 'Ninlil' is the name Sud receives on marrying Enlil. This registry keeps one record, Ninlil, with Sud noted there, so the paternity is recorded as a link to that record.Oracc AMGG s.v. Haya: father of Sud; and the reference treatment of Ninlil, who was identified with Sud of Shuruppak and absorbed her, and whose parents are given as Nisaba and Haya. (secondary)

Sources

• Haya is the Mesopotamian god of scribes, a divine accountant, archivist and doorkeeper with a grain association, husband of Nisaba and father of Sud, worshipped chiefly in the Ur III period.: Oracc, Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses, s.v. Haya. (secondary)