Ninura
Mesopotamian · deity · early dynastic sumer · Recorded classification
Ninura is here because the alternative was to leave Shara's marriage as a sentence of prose. She is a local goddess of the Umma region, his wife while Umma mattered, and then she stops being attested: by the Old Babylonian period her cult has faded and Shara is paired with Usahara or Kumulmul instead. That pattern — a city goddess who exists for as long as her city's archives do — is worth having a record for, because it is what most of this pantheon actually looked like before the theologians tidied it into a family tree.
Domains
- tutelary protection
Relations
- spouse: SharaWife of Shara at Umma in the third millennium. The pairing does not survive the Old Babylonian period, and the record says so rather than presenting it as the standing arrangement.Reference treatment naming Ninura as the wife of Shara in the third millennium BCE. (secondary)
Sources
- Ninura is a goddess of the Umma area, wife of Shara in the third millennium BCE, whose cult fell into obscurity in the Old Babylonian period.: Reference treatment of Shara and Ninura, on the marriage and on the later disappearance of her cult. (secondary)