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Ninsun
The wise goddess of the Epic of Gilgamesh, dream-reader for her son, and the mother through whom the bloodline of Uruk's kings runs.
- Epithets:
- lady wild cow; the dream-reader; mother of Gilgamesh.
- Kin:
- consort of Lugalbanda; mother of Gilgamesh.
In the myths:
a wise goddess of the Epic of Gilgamesh, dream-reader for her son.
Where they were worshipped
The city this power belonged to, and the periods our chronology places it in.
Where the chronicle adds a layer
Everything above is the attested record, with its sources. Chronicles of Uruk also tells stories on top of this figure, and that layer is ours rather than Sumer's. It belongs to the stories, so this page marks that it exists and does not describe it. You will meet it in play, or not at all.
Sources
The pages this entry is drawn from. ORACC and ETCSL are the scholarly editions; the rest are general references.
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In the chronicle
This figure appears in Chronicles of Uruk. What follows is our retelling, not the record above.
The chronicle keeps her wisdom and her patience and asks what a very long patience is for. She opens doors she does not walk through.
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