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Nanna and Norse
In Norse mythology, Nepr ( anglicized as Nep ) is the father of the goddess Nanna, according to Snorri Sturluson's Gylfaginning only.
* Nepr, the father of the Goddess Nanna in Norse Mythology.
In Norse mythology, Nanna Nepsdóttir or simply Nanna is a goddess associated with the god Baldr.
Some scholars have attempted to link Old Norse Nanna with the Sumerian goddess Inanna, the goddess Nannar / Babylonian Ishtar, or the Phrygian goddess Nana, mother of the god Attis.

Nanna and deity
One strategy adopted by both Sargon and Naram-Sin, to maintain control of the country, was to install their daughters, Enheduanna and Emmenanna respectively, as high priestess to Sin, the Akkadian version of the Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer ; to install sons as provincial ensi governors in strategic locations ; and to marry their daughters to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire ( Urkesh and Marhashe ).
The city's patron deity was Nanna ( in Akkadian Sin ), the Sumerian and Akkadian ( Assyrian-Babylonian ) moon god, and the name of the city is in origin derived from the god's name, being the classical Sumerian spelling of LAK-32. UNUG < sup > KI </ sup >, literally " the abode ( UNUG ) of Nanna ( LAK-32 )".
However, Baldr makes no progress ; Nanna dodges his advances by arguing that the offspring of a deity cannot marry a mortal due to the differences in their nature.
The ziggurat was a piece in a temple complex that served as an administrative center for the city, and which was a shrine of the moon god Nanna, the patron deity of Ur.

Nanna and ),
Nanna, the wife of Baldr ( whose heart burst upon seeing the corpse of Baldr and was placed upon the pyre with Baldr ), gives gifts to Hermóðr to return to Asgard with.
The most notable architectural remains from early Mesopotamia are the temple complexes at Uruk from the 4th millennium BC, temples and palaces from the Early Dynastic period sites in the Diyala River valley such as Khafajah and Tell Asmar, the Third Dynasty of Ur remains at Nippur ( Sanctuary of Enlil ) and Ur ( Sanctuary of Nanna ), Middle Bronze Age remains at Syrian-Turkish sites of Ebla, Mari, Alalakh, Aleppo and Kultepe, Late Bronze Age palaces at Bogazkoy ( Hattusha ), Ugarit, Ashur and Nuzi, Iron Age palaces and temples at Assyrian ( Kalhu / Nimrud, Khorsabad, Nineveh ), Babylonian ( Babylon ), Urartian ( Tushpa / Van Kalesi, Cavustepe, Ayanis, Armavir, Erebuni, Bastam ) and Neo-Hittite sites ( Karkamis, Tell Halaf, Karatepe ).
* Nanna or Sin ( mythology ), god of the moon in Sumerian mythology, also called Suen
* Nanna ( given name ), a Scandinavian female name
* Nanna ( Nanner ), slang word for banana ( s )
Some of the most significant of these deities were Anu, Ea, Enlil, Ishtar ( Astarte ), Ashur, Shamash, Tammuz, Adad / Hadad, Sin ( Nanna ), Dagan, Ninurta, Nisroch, Nergal, Tiamat, Bel and Marduk.
The most notable architectural remains from early Mesopotamia are the temple complexes at Uruk from the 4th millennium BC, temples and palaces from the Early Dynastic period sites in the Diyala River valley such as Khafajah and Tell Asmar, the Third Dynasty of Ur remains at Nippur ( Sanctuary of Enlil ) and Ur ( Sanctuary of Nanna ), Middle Bronze Age remains at Syrian-Turkish sites of Ebla, Mari, Alalakh, Aleppo and Kultepe, Late Bronze Age palaces at Bogazkoy ( Hattusha ), Ugarit, Ashur and Nuzi, Iron Age palaces and temples at Assyrian ( Kalhu / Nimrud, Khorsabad, Nineveh ), Babylonian ( Babylon ), Urartian ( Tushpa / Van Kalesi, Cavustepe, Ayanis, Armavir, Erebuni, Bastam ) and Neo-Hittite sites ( Karkamis, Tell Halaf, Karatepe ).
These depictions include " Idun " ( statue, 1821 ) by H. E. Freund, " Idun " ( statue, 1843 ) and " Idun som bortrövas av jätten Tjasse i örnhamn " ( plaster statue, 1856 ) by C. G. Qvarnström, " Brage sittande vid harpan, Idun stående bakom honom " ( 1846 ) by Nils Blommér, " Iduns Rückkehr nach Valhalla " by C. Hansen ( resulting in an 1862 woodcut modeled on the painting by C. Hammer ), " Bragi und Idun, Balder und Nanna " ( drawing, 1882 ) by K. Ehrenberg, " Idun and the Apples " ( 1890 ) by J. Doyle Penrose, " Brita as Iduna " ( 1901 ) by Carl Larsson, " Loki och Idun " ( 1911 ) by John Bauer, " Idun " ( watercolor, 1905 ) by B. E. Ward, and " Idun " ( 1901 ) by E. Doepler.
Enheduanna ( Akkadian: ; 2285-2250 BCE ), also transliterated as Enheduana, En-hedu-ana or EnHeduAnna (" en " means High Priestess, and " hedu " means adornment, so this name translates to " high priestess adornment of the god, An "), was an Akkadian princess as well as High Priestess of the Moon god Nanna ( Sin ) in the Sumerian city-state of Ur.
Academic discussion of a star or stars together with crescents in Sumerian representations does not always clearly indicate if they appear in isolation ( the " star and crescent " as such ) or as part of a triad of symbols, " the three celestial emblems, the sun disk of Shamash ( Utu to the Sumerians ), the crescent of Sin ( Nanna ), and the star of Ishtar ( Inanna to the Sumerians )" or " the crescent of Sin ( the moon god ), the star of Ishtar and the ray of Shamash ".
Naram-Sin ( also transcribed Narām-Sîn, Naram-Suen, Sin or Suen being the Akkadians ' moon god equivalent to the Sumerian Nanna ), reigned ca.
* Nanna Badukina Haadu ( The Song of My Life ), as told to Mr. N. K. Kulkarni, translated into English by G. N. Hangal, published by Sayitya Prakashan, Hubli.
In an attempt to bring back Baldr from the dead, the god Hermóðr rides to Hel and, upon receiving the hope of resurrection from the being Hel, Nanna gives Hermóðr gifts to give to the goddess Frigg ( a robe of linen ), the goddess Fulla ( a finger-ring ), and other gifts ( unspecified ).

Nanna and goddess
is the Sun god in Sumerian mythology, the son of the moon god Nanna and the goddess Ningal.
Ningal (" Great Lady / Queen ") was a goddess of reeds in the Sumerian mythology, daughter of Enki and Ningikurga and the consort of the moon god Nanna by whom she bore Utu the sun god, Inanna, and in some texts, Ishkur.
The etymology of the name of the goddess Nanna is debated.
Nanna presents to Hermóðr a series of gifts: a linen robe for Frigg, a golden ring for the goddess Fulla, and other unspecified items.
In book III of Gesta Danorum, Nanna is not a goddess but rather a the daughter of the mortal King Gevar.
The comb is the subject of an amount of scholarly discourse as most experts accept the reading of the Germanic charm word alu and Nanna, though there exists questions as to if Nanna is the same figure as the goddess from later attestations.

Nanna and wife
Enheduanna, the " wife ( Sumerian " dam " = high priestess ) of Nanna Sumerian moon god and daughter of Sargon " of the temple of Sin at Ur, who lived ca.
According to Gylfaginning, a book of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, Baldr's wife is Nanna and their son is Forseti.
By his wife Ninlil or Sud, Enlil was father of the moon god Nanna / Suen ( in Akkadian, Sin ) and of Ninurta ( also called Ningirsu ).
" Davidson adds that " yet this is not the impression given in the account of Hermod's ride to Hel later in Gylfaginning ( 49 )" and points out that here Hel " with authority as ruler of the underworld " and that from her realm " gifts are sent back to Frigg and Fulla by Balder's wife Nanna as from a friendly kingdom.
In Snorri's Gylfaginning Ali is only another name for Vali and Nep is the father of Baldur's wife Nanna.
Along with Baldr, his wife Nanna was also borne to the funeral pyre after she had died of grief.
Ningal, the wife of the moon god Nanna, goes on to recall her petition to the leaders of the gods, An and Enlil to change their minds and not to destroy Ur.
In the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, Nanna is the wife of Baldr and the couple produced a son, the god Forseti.
This figure may or may not be the same Nanna as Baldr's wife.
Hermóðr finally arrives in Hel to find Baldr in a hall, seated in the seat of honor and with his wife Nanna.

Nanna and god
She begs the moon god Nanna to intercede for her because the city of Uruk, under the ruler Lugalanne, has rebelled against Sargon.
Ninlil followed him to the underworld where she bore his first child, Nergal, and / or the moon god Sin ( Sumerian Nanna / Suen ).
* c. 2285 BC: Enheduanna, high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur, was born.
Similarly the Sumerian moon god Nanna became the Akkadian Sîn whilst the Sumerian sun god Utu became the Akkadian Shamash.
In other texts Adad / Ishkur is sometimes son of the moon god Nanna / Sin by Ningal and brother of Utu / Shamash and Inana / Ishtar.
Temples to the moon god Sin ( Nanna ) and the sun god Shamash were erected in the 15th century BC.
* Site drawings of the temple built by Ur-Nammu at Ur to the moon god Nanna.
Crescents appearing together with a star or stars are a common feature of Sumerian iconography, the crescent usually being associated with the moon god Sin ( Nanna to the Sumerians ) and the star ( often identified as Venus ) with Ishtar ( Inanna to the Sumerians ).
Raped and ravaged by her husband Enlil, who impregnated her with water, she conceived a boy, Nanna / Suen, the future moon god.

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