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The Goddess in Transition: Nammu
Review "Nammu: The Sumerian Great Mother"
Namma/Nammu A page about Nammu (aka Namma) exists on the Ancient Mseopotamian Gods and Goddesses listing in the Oracc (Open Richly Annotated Cueiform Corpus) section of the University of Pennsylvania site. Visit the Nammu page.
Before Yahweh, there was Nammu, the Goddess of the Primordial Sea.
Photo by Sean O'Flaherty.
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In the Beginning: How the Goddess Nammu created the world and then was forgotten.
The Brooklyn Museum says this about her:
Nammu. Mythic, worshipped in Sumer (modern-day Iraq) circa 3500-2500 B.C.E.
Nammu, the Sumerian creation goddess, arose from the sea and gave birth to heaven, earth, and the first gods. She represented the freshwater ocean, called the Apsu, which Sumerians believed existed below the earth as a source of life and fertility. Nammu also created the first humans with her son, Enki, the god of culture who presided over the Apsu.
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