Nanna / Nannar Overview

(gods in blue mixed-breed demigods in teal…)

2a - Nannar statue 2,000 B.C.2bc - Nanna & his symbol

. Nannar = Sumerian

. Nanna = Akkadian, Sumerian short for Nannar bright oneaffectionately called Father Nanna” 

. Sin = Akkadian

. SU.EN = Akkadian “Multiplying Lord” due to his twins Inanna & Utu

. Acimbabbar = Sumer

. El = Canaanites (retired god married to Asherah), Biblical name for Yaweh during time of Abraham

. lofty deity–Ab Adam-father of man, the Kindly, the Merciful, creator of things created”

. Ares = Greek

          . Mars = Roman

. 1st son born to Enlil & Ninlil 

. older brother to Ishkur / Adad

. younger ½ brother to Enlil’s heir, Ninurta

. married to Ningal– “great lady”, daughter to Enki & Ningikuga

. Nannar’s ruling # is 30, Ningal’s # is 25

. Nannar is the Moon God, the Moon Crescent was his symbol until falling ill, then it was given to son Utu

          . Monday named after Moon Day, for Moon Crescent God Nannar

             . Nanna, your crescent moon is called “the crescent moon of the seventh day (?)”.

. Nannar was given sovereignty over the great city-state of Ur, (of Biblical hero Abraham fame)

          . Harran was built as a copy of Ur, & designated a city of Nannar, the Moon God

           . Ehulhul, the temple of Sin in Harran

 . Egishnugal (“House of the seed of the throne”) ziggurat temple residence of Nannar in Ur

           . E-kiš-nu-ĝal (“House sending light to the earth”) in Ur

          . E-ab-lua (“House with teeming cattle”), Nannar possessed over one million cattle in large pens in Urim / Ur

          . Kar-zida (“Pure quay”) in Gaeš, small shining city of Suen

          . E-dim-an-na (“Temple of the bond of heaven“), built by Nebuchadnezzar for Sin

          . E-hursang (“House which is a hill”), construction of Shulgi in Ur

          . E-mud-kura in Ur

          . E-temen-ni-guru, main ziggurat of Ur

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According to Sitchin Books:

Part of the Sinai peninsula was called by the Old Testament the (“Wilderness of Sin”), Mount Sinai is named in Arabic, (Nakhl”) after the goddess Ningal, the spouse to Sin.

Jericho / Yeriho in the Semitic / Biblical word, means (“City of the Moon God”), Allah in Arabic, is adopted from El .

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Sons:

            . Utu / Shamash, Sun God

            . Papsukal

 

Daughters:

            . Inanna / Ishtar, Goddess of Love & War 

            . Ereshkigal, Queen of the Under World / Netherworld / Hades