Norse
Ymir
first giant, raw material of the world
Nammu
Mesopotamian tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- the primeval sea, mother of the gods
Key myth
In Sumerian tradition Nammu is the sea that existed before the gods. Enki and Ninmah has her wake her sleeping son Enki and ask him to make humankind.
Where sources differ or caution applies. Her relation to An and Ki is not fixed in the sources.
Place in the family graph
More traditions
Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Nammu: creation and first beings, sea and waters. This is overlap in one area only.