Cult of Gods

Nanna / Sin

Mesopotamian tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
moon, wisdom of time
Symbols and attributes
Crescent
Parents (per the sources used)
Enlil and Ninlil
Children
Utu / Shamash, Inanna / Ishtar
A chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.
A chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.

Key myth

The moon god of Ur. In 'Enlil and Ninlil' he is the first child of the union; Ninlil then bears three more, who are sent to the underworld as substitutes so that Nanna can stay in the sky.

Primary sources

  • Enlil and Ninlil

All sources for the Mesopotamian pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: Enlil, An / Anu, Ninlil.

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

NammuApsuTiamatAn / AnuNinhursagEnlilNinlilEnki / EaNinurtaNanna / SinNergalEreshkigalMardukUtu / ShamashInanna / IshtarDumuzi / Tammuz

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorsePapyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.HinduFolio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.Celtic (Irish)

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Nanna / Sin: the moon. This is overlap in one area only.

Egyptian

Thoth

writing, moon, wisdom

Roman

Diana

the hunt, the moon, childbirth

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