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Definition of Damkina
1. Noun. (Babylonian) earth goddess; consort of Ea and mother of Marduk.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Damkina
Literary usage of Damkina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow (1898)
"Damkina. ' The consort of Ea figures occasionally in the historical texts of ...
invokes Ea and Damkina, asking these gods, who 'dwell in the great ocean' ..."
2. The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia: Being Babylonian and Assyrian by Reginald Campbell Thompson (1903)
"Of Ea are they, of [Damkina] are they, Of Ea and Damkina, the lord . . . are they,
5. In the hallowed dwelling Eridu they were seated, (And) they beheld the ..."
3. Bible Problems and the New Material for Their Solution: A Plea for by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1904)
"36l) that the title, "The Woman," may have come from the name of the consort of
the divine Redeemer of the Babylonians, which was Damkina, ie, ..."
4. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches (1906)
"... (Damkina), his consort, Asari-lu-duga (Merodach), In-ab (or Ines"), the pilot
of Eridu (Ea's city), and Nin-igi-nagar-sir,' the great architect of ..."
5. Babylonian life and history by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1884)
"Ea Damkina Samas. Bel Beltis Sin. The oldest Babylonian Semitic inscription that
we have, namely, that of Sargon I., BC 3800, mentions the Sun-god of ..."
6. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Andrew Bruce Davidson, James Hastings, Samuel Rolles Driver, John Alexander Selbie, Henry Barclay Swete (1908)
"... Dam-gal-nunna or Damkina, were female personifications of the Ocean of Heaven.
The four children of the Earth-god (who was represented as a Ram) and his ..."
7. An Encyclopaedia of Religions by Maurice Arthur Canney (1921)
"Damkina. A Babylonian deity. The goddess Dam- kina appears sometimes as the
consort of Ea (QC). The name means " lady of the earth. ..."
8. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"... of the great house, the goddess Damkina, announce my prayer to thee! May Marduk,
the lord of Babylon, announce my prayer to thee! ..."
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