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The Mother-Goddess & the Birth of Life
The divine midwife who shapes life from clay — and the mother who weeps when her children are destroyed.
A cluster of names — Ninhursaga, Nintur, Ninmah, Aruru, and Akkadian Belet-ili ('Lady of the gods') — belongs to the great mother-goddess, the divine womb and midwife of the pantheon. It is she who, with Enki/Ea, fashions humankind from clay, who presides over birth and the forms of living things, and who appears in the creation and Flood myths as the bereaved mother grieving the destruction of the people she made. She embodies the generative power of life itself: the shaping of bodies, the bringing-forth of the newborn, and the maternal sorrow over death.
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