#innana

Ninšubur is a Diĝir who is both male and female.

"The name of two Sumerian deities, one female and the other male. According to Wiggermann, when the earliest sources from the third millennium BCE indicate the sex of Nin-šubur, they all treat her as female, for instance, calling her "Mother." Later Akkadian documents consider Nin-šubur as male. Even in bilingual writings, when the Sumerian deity was clearly female, the translation into Akkadian presented her as male. Around the end of the third millennium, the two existed side by side (Wiggermann, RIA IX: 491). The sex-gender difficulty resulted in at least one cultic attempt to resolve it by presenting Nin-šubur clothed as a male on the right side and as a female on the left." — A Handbook of Gods and Gods of the Ancient Near by Frayne pg 273

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"Early texts of King Rim-Sin addressed the deity as female, but in later ones he was male. Nonetheless, popular religion, much of which would have retained early Sumerian traditions, probably continued to understand Nin-subur as female. In literary material, female Nin-subur generally served the goddess Inana and male Nin-subur the god An." — A Handbook of Gods and Gods of the Ancient Near by Frayne pg 273

I wanted a way to different who I am referring to, even if they are the same Diĝir.

So I decided to simply label them as male and female as epithets.

Using Sumerian Dictionary (ePSD2) & Electronic of Sumerian Epithets (EDSDE) I tried to find a useful modern epithets.

Using the ePSD2 I found "ĝuruš" (alt spelling ŋuruš; ŋ = ĝ, apparently) for male, link. And "munus" for female, link.

I then checked to see if these were ever epithets to divine names.

ŋuruš (ĝuruš) is divine epithet for Dumuzid, Enlil, Ninĝešzida, and Damu. Link

munus is a divine epithet for Inana, Ninlil, Nisaba, Ningal, Ninmaḫ. Link

Therefore I decided the following

Ninšubur-ĝuruš = masculine Ninšubur, sukkal of An

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Ninšhbur-munus = feminine Ninšubur, sukkal of Inana

Even if I consider Lilith a fascinating character at the level of stories, I must admit that the way in which they have deformed a "feminist icon" makes me quite angry because she is the complete opposite of a feminist in all the stories she appears in.

Lilith is the mother of lies, the one who generates inhuman labor pains in women (for her sadistic enjoyment) and who even came to eat babies who only were safe from her clutches using special amulets, she is never shown as a good person or like a loving mother, we are only shown a capricious woman who does not like that God/Adam does not fulfill her wishes and decides to curse humanity out of pure resentment.

Lilith is a sinister woman, and that's why I love her, she represents the darkest side of femininity and is the perfect opposite of Eve in the same way that Lucifer is the perfect opposite of Adam, but it irritates me a lot that they make her a feminist just because she's a "rebel" when her actions against women are horrible.

Do you know who are true feminist icons?

1)aradia: from Italian folklore, aradia is the mother of magic and mother of witches, who taught magic to women to defend themselves from the church, she instructed these women at a time when they needed protection, plus she was also Known as "the freer of slaves" since one of her offerings was the liberation of these people, an idol and true girls girl.

2)artemis: even is she has some moments where we could consider her volatile she protects the women and nymphs under her care, in some myths she turned calysto into a bear to PROTECT her from hera's wrath and was FURIOUS with her for calysto's death, she also saved iphigenie from being sacrificed in some versions of her myth and even make her a priestess! She is a protector.

3)Isis:a powerful Egyptian goddess who was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife, but also a magician, healer, and protector. She was one of the most important deities in the ancient Egyptian pantheon and one of the best mothers!

4)Inanna,the Sumerian goddess of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, justice, and political power. She was one of the most prominent and complex female deities in Mesopotamian mythology.

5)Freyja:the Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, gold, magic , war, and death, She was an independent and powerful figure who commanded great respect.

6)Parvati - the Hindu goddess of fertility, love, and devotion. She was a strong-willed partner to the god Shiva and played an important role in Hindu mythology.