Ninura
Mesopotamian · deity · early dynastic sumer · deity
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: Shara
Sources
- Reference treatment of Shara and Ninura, on the marriage and on the later disappearance of her cult.