A sculpture representing Ninsun, Gilgamesh's mother
A sculpture representing Ninsun, the mother of Gilgamesh, the site of the discovery in southern Iraq, the current location of the Louvre Museum, and it dates back to the Sumerian civilization, dating back to 2250 BC.
In the Epic of Gilgamesh Ninsun is depicted
(Ninson, the wise and all-knowing woman, said to her son)
She lives in Uruk with her son as king. Since Gilgamesh's father was the former king Lugal-Banda, it makes sense that Ninsun would be related to Lugal-Banda by birth and help her son in his adventure by providing him with the meanings of his dream in the beginning.
As in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ninsun is summoned by Gilgamesh and Enkidu for help by praying to the god Utu to help the two on their journey to fight Humbaba.
Gilgamesh (in Akkadian): He is a historical king of the Sumerian state of Uruk, an important hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, and the main character in the Epic of Gilgamesh (the first epic poem in history, written in Akkadian during the late second millennium BC). He probably ruled for a period of time between 2800 and 2500 BC. Birth and his deity after his death. Gilgamesh became an important figure in Sumerian mythology during the Third Dynasty of Ur (2112 - 2004 BC). Tales of Gilgamesh’s heroic exploits are told in five surviving Sumerian poems. The poem “Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Underworld” is the earliest poem among these poems. In it, Gilgamesh helps the goddess Inanna and expels the creatures that disturb her milk tree. Inanna gives him two unknown objects called miko and piko, but Gilgamesh loses them. . After Enkidu's death, his ghost tells Gilgamesh about the dismal conditions in the underworld. The poem “Gilgamesh and Agha” describes Gilgamesh’s revolt against his overlord, King Agha. Other Sumerian poems recount Gilgamesh's defeat of the monster Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven, and a fifth, much distorted poem, describes Gilgamesh's death and funeral.
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