TYPE: Mother Goddess
ORIGIN: Mesopotamian (Akkadian-Babylonian and Sumerian)
INFORMATION: According to legend she pinched off fourteen peices of primordial clay that she formed into womb deities, seven on the left and seven on the right with a brick between them, who produced the first seven pairs of human embryos. She is closely identified with the goddess Ninhursaga and may have become Belet Ili (mistress of the gods) when, at Enki's suggestion, the gods slew one of themselves and used his blood and flesh mixed with clay, to create mankind.