Nanaya

Nanaya was one of the most worshipped goddesses in Mesopotamia for two thousand years and was in this registry only as an alias on a Sogdian record — the eastern descendant without the original. Whether she began as a minor Akkadian goddess or as an aspect of Inanna that hardened into a separate deity is not settled; the genealogies are inconsistent about her too, giving her Urash or Anu for a father and sometimes Inanna for a mother, which is what one would expect of a goddess who may have started as somebody else's hypostasis. This record takes no position on the origin and leaves her parentage empty rather than choosing between the lists.

Domains

• love

Relations

• counterpart of: Nana

Sources

• Reference treatment of Nanaya: her love-goddess character, her association with and possible origin as a hypostasis of Inanna, her cult centres, and her Greek renderings Nanaia and Nana.