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NAMMU

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Overview

NAMMU (noun)
  The noun NAMMU has 1 sense:

1. goddess personifying the primeval sea; mother of the gods and of heaven and earthplay

  Familiarity information: NAMMU used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


NAMMU (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Goddess personifying the primeval sea; mother of the gods and of heaven and earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)

Domain region:

Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)


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