Imzuanna

Imzuanna
Goddess of Marad
Other namesNinzuanna
Major cult centerMarad
Genealogy
SpouseLugal-Marada

Imzuanna, also known as Ninzuanna,[1] was a Mesopotamian goddess worshiped in Marad as the wife of the city's tutelary god, Lugal-Marada. She is attested in various god lists, in the literary composition Lament for Sumer and Ur, and in at least one theophoric name. Known sources mentioning her come from between the Ur III and Neo-Babylonian periods.

In a trilingual edition of the Weidner god list known from Ugarit, Imzuanna is treated as an equivalent of the Hurrian weather god Teshub and his Ugaritic counterpart Baal, but due to the dissimilarity between their roles in the respective pantheons this is assumed to be a result of ancient scribes misinterpreting the first sign of the common writing of her name as the logogram dIM, which could designate weather deities.

  1. ^ Simons 2017, p. 89.