Gunura is attested in Ur III, Old Babylonian and later Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian sources as a daughter and member of the household of the medicine goddess Ninisina (in some traditions identified with or associated with Gula). Textual evidence places her as one of the children of Ninisina (with attestations also linking her to a household including father Pabilsag in some traditions and siblings Damu and Šumaḫ). She appears in temple and ritual lists, offering records, lamentation literature and ritual compositions, indicating cultic integration into Ninisina’s circle rather than a dominant independent origin; some modern scholars suggest she might originally have been an independent healing deity later incorporated into that entourage.
The supplied sources do not preserve any iconographic or descriptive depiction of Gunura. Her presence in the record is primarily textual — offering lists, ritual and tākultu texts, lamentations and the Great Star List — and no physical attributes or visual descriptions are provided in the quoted materials.
Gunura functions as a healing and protective deity within Mesopotamian medical-religious practice. She is named in an Old Babylonian incantation against the evil eye where she is invoked to strike the affliction alongside other deities. She is listed among medically related goddesses (including as one of the 'seven Gulas' in the Great Star List), participates in laments (mourning Damu) and processional ritual ensembles (placed immediately behind Ninisina with Damu), and receives offerings from asû (medical practitioners) recorded in Ur III archives. Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian lists and temple records show her inclusion in cultic furnishings (statues, shrine-seats) and worship in multiple cities.
Ninisina
Ninisina is a Sumerian/Mesopotamian tutelary goddess of the city of Isin, chiefly known as a divine physician and midwife who protects the city, legitimizes its rulers, and is invoked to expel harmful supernatural agents.
Nintinugga
Nintinugga is a Mesopotamian city-associated goddess of medicine, healing and ritual cleansing, principally worshiped at Nippur and attested across Ur III and Old Babylonian contexts. She is linked with bandaging, wound-cleaning, cleansing rites (atua), funerary libations, and cultic associations with dogs and specific ritual objects.
Damu
Damu is a Mesopotamian deity attested from the Ur III period onward whose character shifts over time from an early 'dying/vegetation' figure to a later, better-documented role as a healing god associated with medicine-goddesses and cult centers such as Isin.
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A'annepada
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Abu
Abu is a poorly understood Mesopotamian god attested in modern reference summaries. Secondary literature tentatively links him with vegetation and snakes and records that he was often paired with a deity written gu2-la2, but primary details about his cult, iconography, and myths are lacking in the cited sources.
Abzû
Abzû (Sumerian abzû; Akkadian Apsû) is the primordial freshwater abyss in Sumerian–Akkadian cosmology: the deep fresh waters that underlie and surround the earth, source of springs, rivers and ritual holy waters, and a creative principle whose mingling with the salt sea (Tiamat) figures in Mesopotamian cosmogony.
Abī-simtī
Abī-simtī (also rendered Abi-simti, Abisimti) is a named woman attested in third-millennium BCE Mesopotamian documentary and literary texts. She appears in administrative account records as a provider of animals and donor to temple cults and in Sumerian love-song literature as the named beloved/consort addressed by a royal speaker.
Adad
Adad (also Hadad, Haddad; Sumerian Iškur) is the storm- and rain-deity attested in ancient Mesopotamian and Canaanite religious contexts. Sources identify him as a principal weather god whose domain is storms and rainfall and whose name appears across multiple Near Eastern languages and sites, including Ebla (as Hadda, c. 2500 BCE).
Adapa
Adapa is a mythic figure from ancient Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Akkadian) literature: a mortal fisherman and temple sage of Ea at Eridu endowed with exceptional wisdom. He appears in a fragmentary tale in which he breaks the wings of the south wind and is summoned to the divine court; his name was later invoked in exorcistic and ritual contexts as an authoritative identity.
Adonis
Adonis is a mythic mortal youth in ancient Greek tradition, beloved by goddesses (notably Aphrodite and Persephone) whose death and seasonal return are the focus of the women’s midsummer festival Adonia. The cultic practices—planting short-lived 'gardens of Adonis' on rooftops, ritual lamentation, and casting an effigy and withered plants into the sea—symbolically link him to vegetation cycles and Near Eastern dying-and-regenerating god traditions.
Adrammelech
Adrammelech is attested in ancient Semitic textual tradition as a local god of 'Sepharvaim.' The name is commonly glossed as "Magnificent king." In modern times the name has been reused in diverse fictional, musical, and online contexts, but those are creative reworkings rather than continuations of the brief ancient attestation.
Aga of Kish
Aga of Kish (Aga, Agga, Akka) is an Early Dynastic Mesopotamian king recorded in the Sumerian King List, the Tummal Inscription, epigraphic objects, and the Sumerian poem "Gilgamesh and Aga." He functions in texts as a historical/legendary political actor who attempted hegemonic demands on Uruk and was ultimately captured and released by Gilgamesh.
Agasaya
Agasaya is presented in modern secondary sources as a little-attested Semitic war goddess who, according to some summaries, was later absorbed as the warrior aspect of the major Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar. The attestation in available materials is sparse and much inferences about her name, attributes, and later influence are explicitly marked speculative in those sources.
Agum II (Agum‑Kakrime)
Agum II (called Agum‑Kakrime in the inscriptionary tradition) is a Kassite-era Babylonian king known from the Agum‑Kakrime Inscription and later copies. He appears in Akkadian inscriptional and king-list traditions as a royal restorer who recovered and reinstalled the cult statue of Marduk and refurbished the É-sagila, presenting himself as a legitimate shepherd‑king and temple benefactor.
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- [1]Gunura - Wikipedia. Wikipedia contributors, 'Gunura', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopediawiki
- [2]Evil Eye Incantation (Old Babylonian). Translated/incantational text as provided online: Old Babylonian incantation against the evil eyeliterary
- [3]Wikidata: Gunara (Q5618501). Wikidata entry for Gunara/Gunuraother