Uttu
Sign in to saveUttu(𒋳𒌆 TAG.TUG₂) was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with weaving. It has been suggested that she was connected with spiders, though the evidence is limited to a single text which might reflect scribal speculation. She was worshiped in Babylon and possibly in Early Dynastic Umma. She appears in multiple myths, such as Enki and Ninhursag and Enki and the World Order.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Mesopotamian
- Deity.name
- Uttu
- Deity.deity_of
- Goddess of weaving
- Deity.cult_center
- Babylon, possibly Umma
- Deity.animals
- possibly spiders
- Deity.spouse
- Ninkurra
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- Name and character
- Uttu and spiders
- Worship
- Mythology
- References
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Uttu(𒋳𒌆 TAG.TUG₂) was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with weaving. It has been suggested that she was connected with spiders, though the evidence is limited to a single text which might reflect scribal speculation. She was worshiped in Babylon and possibly in Early Dynastic Umma. She appears in multiple myths, such as Enki and Ninhursag and Enki and the World Order.
==Name and character== thumb|upright=1.3|It has been argued that Uttu was envisioned as a spider spinning a web, but the evidence in favor of this view is limited. Uttu's name was written TAG×TÙG, with the sign TAG (usually pronounced as tuku) referring to the action of weaving cloth. The word uttu could also denote a part of a loom. It is also possible that the name dTAG.NUN should be read as Uttu, though Joan Goodnick Westenholz rejected this interpretation and instead assumed that dTAG.NUN was one of the multiple writings of the name of Bizilla or a closely related goddess who like her came to be associated with Nanaya in later sources.