Ama-arhus
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Ama-arhus is an Akkadian fertility goddess
. She is mentioned in texts as being amongst the pantheon at Uruk
in Hellenistic times, but is also found as an earlier aspect of the deity Gula
.
Fertility goddess
A fertility deity is a god or goddess in mythology associated with fertility, pregnancy, and birth. In some cases these deities are directly associated with sex, and in others they simply embody related attributes...
. She is mentioned in texts as being amongst the pantheon at Uruk
Uruk
Uruk was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the ancient dry former channel of the Euphrates River, some 30 km east of modern As-Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq.Uruk gave its name to the Uruk...
in Hellenistic times, but is also found as an earlier aspect of the deity Gula
Gula
Nintinugga was a Babylonian goddess of healing, the consort of Ninurta. She is identical with another goddess, known as Bau, though it would seem that the two were originally independent....
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