Norse
Sif
golden hair, grain (by later reading)
Ninhursag
Mesopotamian tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- mountains, birth, earth
Key myth
A mother goddess. In 'Enki and Ninhursag' she curses Enki after he eats her plants; she then relents and heals him through eight created deities.
Place in the family graph
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Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Ninhursag: earth, harvest and fertility. This is overlap in one area only.