History
Nanna
The moon god of Ur, whose great ziggurat still stands, and the second of the three doors that refuse the minister in Inana's descent.
𒀭𒋀𒆠dŠEŠ.KIthe moon over Ur, the second door
- Akkadian:
- Suen / Sîn
- Epithets:
- the moon; lord of the bright line; father of the Lady's own house.
- Kin:
- son of Enlil and Ninlil; consort Ningal; father of Utu/Shamash and, in the tradition we follow, of Inanna.
In the myths:
patron of Ur, whose great house he keeps; in Inana's descent he is the second door, and he refuses — a father turning away his own daughter's plea, which is the cruellest of the three refusals.
Where they were worshipped
The city this power belonged to, and the periods our chronology places it in.
As attested
What the record has
Everything above is the myth as the texts and the scholarship have it, and the sources are listed so you can check us. The chronicle uses this figure; it does not add to them.
Sources
The pages this entry is drawn from. ORACC and ETCSL are the scholarly editions; the rest are general references.
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