Goddess of marriage and childbirth
ORIGIN: Mesopotamian (Akkadian-Babylonian and Western Semitic)
INFORMATION: Also a deity concerned with the enforcing of oaths. Known chiefly from early inscriptions and some Akkadian texts. Her Mesopotamian cult center was the Babylonian town of Kissura, but she was also thought to have been worshiped across a wide area among Syrians, Canaanites, and Hittites. Her symbol is the scorpion. Also Esara.