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The Sumerian god Ningizzida accompanied by two gryphons. It is the oldest known image of snakes coiling around an axial rod, dating from before 2000 BCE.
The Sumerian god Ningizzida accompanied by two gryphons. The griffin is a Legendary creature with the body of a Lion and the head and often wings of an Eagle. It is the oldest known image of snakes coiling around an axial rod, dating from before 2000 BCE.

Ningishzida (sum: dnin-ǧiš-zi-da) is a Mesopotamian deity of the underworld. Dingir is the Sumerian for " Deity " It is written as an Ideogram in the Cuneiform script (Borger 2003 nr In the study of Mythology and Religion, the underworld (gr κάτω κόσμος) is a generic term approximately equivalent to the lay term Afterlife He is the patron of medicine, and may also be considered a god of nature, as his name in Sumerian means "lord of the good tree". A tutelary spirit or patron deity serves as the guardian of or an entity to watch over and protect a particular site person culture or nation Medicine is the art and science of healing It encompasses a range of Health care practices evolved to maintain and restore Human Health by the Nature, in the broadest sense is equivalent to the natural world, physical universe, material world or material universe. In Sumerian mythology, he appears in Adapa's myth as one of the two guardians of Anu's celestial palace, alongside Dumuzi. The word mythology (from the Greek grc μυθολογία mythología, meaning "a story-telling a legendary lore" Adapa or Adamu son of Ea (according to Sayce was a Sumerian and Babylonian mythical figure who accidentally rejected the gift of Immortality In Sumerian mythology and later for Assyrians and Babylonians Anu (also An; (from Sumerian *An = sky heaven was a sky-god He was sometimes depicted as a serpent with a human head.

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Lineage and gender

Ningishzida is the son of Ninazu, and is related to Ngeshtin-ana. Ninazu in Sumerian mythology was a god of the underworld and of healing Ngeshtin-ana is a minor goddess in Sumerian mythology, the so-called "heavenly grape-vine" His wife is either Ninazimua or Dazimua[1]. Dazimua was a goddess in Sumerian mythology, one of the eight deities born to relieve the illness of Enki. He was one of the ancestors of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh was the son of Lugalbanda and the fifth king of Uruk (Early Dynastic II first dynasty of Uruk ruling circa 2600 BC according to the Sumerian king His symbolic animal is the bashmu dragon, a type of snake with horns. A snake is an elongate Reptile of the suborder Serpentes Like all reptiles snakes are covered in scales. He is also associated with the Hydra constellation. Hydra (ˈhaɪdrə is the largest of the 88 modern Constellations and was also one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy.

The Sumerians regarded their deities as dualistic and often had both a male and a female (yin-yang) aspect (as the Sumerian language itself does not differentiate between masculine and feminine genders, but rather, active and inactive genders). Dualism denotes a state of two parts The word's origin is the Latin duo, "two". In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin and yang ( is used to describe how seemingly opposing forces are bound together intertwined and interdependent in the Sumerian ( " native tongue " was the language of ancient Sumer, spoken in Southern Mesopotamia since at least the 4th millennium BC Gender comprises a range of differences between men and women extending from the biological to the social It is not established whether the Ningishida was male or female: although 'nin-' referred to a female entity in Sumerian, this is not a hard and fast rule, as the 'nin-' prefix also simply implies divinity (as with Ninurta and others). Ninurta ( Nin Ur: Lord of the Earth/Plough in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology was the god of Nippur, identified with Ningirsu

Serpent symbolism

Ningishzida is the earliest known symbol of snakes twining (some say in copulation) around an axial rod. Serpent is a word of Latin origin (from serpens serpentis "something that creeps snake" that is commonly used in a specifically mythic or Sexual intercourse, in its biological sense is the act in which the male reproductive organ (in humans and other higher animals enters the female reproductive tract It predates the Caduceus of Hermes, the Rod of Asclepius and the staff of Moses by more than a millennium[1]. The caduceus (/kəˈdjuːsiəs/ -ʃəs -ˈduː- κηρύκειον in Greek) or wand of Hermes is typically depicted as a short herald's staff Hermes ( Greek,, ˈhɝmiːz in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of boundaries and of the travelers who cross them of Shepherds and Asclepius (pronounced /æsˈkliːpiːəs/, Greek, transliterated Asklēpiós; Latin Aesculapius) is the god of Medicine Moses ( Latin: Moyses,; Greek: grc Mωυσής in both the Septuagint and the New Testament; Arabic: ar موسىٰ A millennium (pl millennia) is a period of Time equal to one thousand Years (from Latin la mille, thousand and la annum

In the Louvre, there is a famous green steatite vase carved for king Gudea of Lagash (dated variously 2200–2025 BCE), dedicated by its inscription: "To the god Ningiszida, his god Gudea, Ensi (governor) of Lagash, for the prolongation of his life, has dedicated this". The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre located in Paris is the world's most visited art museum a historic monument and a national museum of France Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a Metamorphic rock, a talc- Schist. The vase (ˈveɪs /ˈveɪz/ or/ˈvɑːz/ is an open container often used to hold cut Flowers It can be made from a number of materials including Ceramics and Gudea was a ruler ( ensi) of the city of Lagash in Southern Mesopotamia who ruled ca Lagash ( is modern Tell al-Hiba, Iraq. Located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk The 22nd century BC is a Century which lasted from the year 2200 BC to 2101 BC The 21st century BC is a Century which lasted from the year 2100 BC to 2001 BC

The Adapa myth mentions Ningizzida and Tammuz (or Dumuzi) and refers to the serpent god as male. Adapa or Adamu son of Ea (according to Sayce was a Sumerian and Babylonian mythical figure who accidentally rejected the gift of Immortality

In popular culture

References

  1. ^ Turner, Frederick. Natural Religion. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 0765803321.  

Michael Jordon, Encyclopedia of Gods, Kyle Cathie Limited, 2002

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