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.

* Nanna ( Norse deity ), goddess and wife of the god Baldr in Norse mythology

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.

According to Snorri Sturluson in the Prose Edda, Forseti is the son of Baldr and Nanna.

At the end of chapter 49, the death of Baldr and Nanna is described.

This is a reference to Baldr, Nanna and those that were burnt in their funeral pyre passing over the bridge upon death.

Baldr then gives Hermóðr various gifts from Nanna and himself to bring from Hel to the living Æsir.

In Norse mythology, Nanna Nepsdóttir or simply Nanna is a goddess associated with the god Baldr.

In Hel, Baldr and Nanna are united again.

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 ).

An account provided by Saxo Grammaticus in his 12th century work Gesta Danorum records Nanna as a human female, the daughter of King Gevar, and the love interest of both the demi-god Baldr and the human Höðr.

Spurred by their mutual attraction to Nanna, Baldr and Höðr repeatedly do battle.

Nanna is only interested in Höðr and weds him, while Baldr wastes away from nightmares about Nanna.

Baldr and Nanna ( 1882 ) by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine

In Hel ( location ) | Hel Baldr, holding Nanna, waves to Hermóðr ( 1893 ) by George Percy Jacomb-Hood

In chapter 38 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, the enthroned figure of High explains that Nanna Nepsdóttir ( the last name meaning " Nepr's daughter ") and her husband Baldr produced a son, the god Forseti.

Hel and Hermóðr come to an agreement and then Baldr and Nanna accompany Hermóðr out of the hall.

In chapter 5 of Skáldskaparmál, means of referring to Baldr are provided, including " husband of Nanna ".

Baldr secretly watches Nanna bathing ( 1898 ) by Louis Moe

Gustav Theodor Fechner claimed in " Nanna " and " Zend-Avesta " that the Earth is a living organism whose parts are the people, the animals and the plants.

One day, Baldr, who Saxo describes as the son of the god Odin, witnesses Nanna bathing and lusts for her ; " the sheen of her graceful body inflamed him and her manifest charms seared his heart, for there is no stronger incitement to lust than beauty.

Nanna is placed on Baldr's ship with his corpse and the two are set aflame and pushed out to sea.

He called himself " The anointed priest of Anu " and " the great ensi of Enlil " and his daughter, Enheduanna, was installed as priestess to Nanna at the temple in Ur.

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 pool of the Abzu at the front of his temple was adopted also at the temple to Nanna ( Akkadian Sin ) the Moon, at Ur, and spread from there throughout the Middle East.

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 )".

* c. 2100 BC – c. 2050 BC: Nanna Ziggurat, Ur ( modern Muqaiyir, Iraq ) was built.

* c. 2285 BC: Enheduanna, high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur, was born.

Together with the sun, it appeared on Akkadian seals as early as 2300 BC and from at least the second millennium BC it was the symbol of the Mesopotamian Moon gods Nanna in Sumer and Sin in Babylonia, Sin being the " Lamp of Heaven and Earth ".

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.

Thulin was born in Sollefteå, Ångermanland, northern Sweden, the daughter of Nanna ( née Larsson ) and Adam Thulin,

(" I learned my craft from Nanny Gripes, who learned it from Goody Heggety, who got it from Nanna Plumb, who was taught it by Black Aliss ..." – Granny, in Lords and Ladies ).

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.

Reelected in 1926 as a deputy from Sir Abu Nanna ( Gharbiyya ) and barred by the British from taking another cabinet post, he was elected one of the Chamber's two vice presidents and, in 1927, its president.

Braid disbanded in 1999 leaving Nanna, Bell, and Atkinson to form Hey Mercedes with Mark Dawursk while Broach would dedicate more time to The Firebird Band which was hitherto a side project.

In fall 1993, Bob Nanna was playing drums in a Chicago band called Friction.

The distance put a strain on the band-members, and Nanna was soon looking for another band as a side project.

Nanna suggested the name Braid, and a new band was born.

His film Avale Nanna Hendthi ( 1988 ) was remade in Hindi as Jawani Zindabad ( 1997 ) starring Aamir Khan and Farah.

Carl Gustav Fleischer was also a more distant relative of Carl August Fleischer, Nanna Fleischer, Agnes Fleischer and August Fleischer.

: was incessantly tormented at night by phantoms which mimicked the shape of Nanna and caused him to fall into such an unhealthy condition that he could not even walk properly.

The ziggurat was built by King Ur-Nammu who dedicated the great ziggurat of Ur in honour of Nanna / Sîn, in approximately the 21st century BC ( short chronology ) during the Third Dynasty of Ur.

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.