entities: ENT_MES_NAMMU

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use category to filter by functional type (146 values: Underworld Deity, Hero, Adversarial Being, Revealer Figure, etc.). Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_MES_NAMMU Nammu   Mesopotamian Primordial sea goddess Primordial Deity primordial sea; first creator; mother of gods; Sumerian cosmogony       A           The primordial sea goddess of Eridu theology; the oldest deity in the Eridu cosmogonic tradition; her name appears to mean "the sea" (the primordial body of water, not the salt sea); in Enki and the World Order (ETCSL 1.1.3) Nammu is listed as the first deity, before Anu; in the Debate between Sheep and Grain (ETCSL 5.3.2) Nammu is the mother of Anu and Enlil; in the Eridu Genesis (a Sumerian flood narrative) she is the primordial creator; in Enki and Ninmah (ETCSL 1.1.2) Nammu wakes Enki to help her create humanity — she is Enki's mother, and her request launches the creation-of-humanity myth; among the oldest attested deities in the Sumerian tradition, associated with the Abzu (the subterranean fresh water) and with the primordial creative principle; later largely superseded by Tiamat (saltwater) and Apsu (fresh water) in the Babylonian theological tradition deity

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