Ninazu
Sign in to saveNinazu (; [DNIN.A.SU] "lord healer") was a Mesopotamian god of the underworld. He was also associated with snakes and vegetation, and with time acquired the character of a warrior god. He was frequently associated with Ereshkigal, either as a son, husband, or simply a member of the same category of underworld deities.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Mesopotamian
- Deity.name
- Ninazu
- Deity.deity_of
- God of the underworld, snakes and vegetation
- Deity.symbol
- snake
- Deity.cult_center
- Enegi, originally also Eshnunna
- Deity.consort
- Ningirida
- Deity.equivalent1_type
- Eshnunnean
- Deity.equivalent1
- Tishpak
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- Mesopotamia male worshiper 2750-2600 B.C.jpg
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- Character and iconography
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- Outside Mesopotamia
- Worship
- References
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Ninazu (; [DNIN.A.SU] "lord healer") was a Mesopotamian god of the underworld. He was also associated with snakes and vegetation, and with time acquired the character of a warrior god. He was frequently associated with Ereshkigal, either as a son, husband, or simply a member of the same category of underworld deities.
His original cult centers were Enegi and Eshnunna, though in the later city he was gradually replaced by a similar god, Tishpak. His cult declined after the Old Babylonian period, though in the city of Ur, where it was introduced from Enegi, he retained a number of worshipers even after the fall of the last Mesopotamian empires, in the Achaemenid period.