Their temples—dedicated to such gods as to Innin, the goddess of fertility, or to Dumuzi, a kind of Sumerian Adonis—were huge edifices of mud brick made splendid by intricate mosaics of ...

The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic ... In the poem, Gilgamesh is described as the son of a minor Sumerian goddess Ninsun and her mortal consort, the postdiluvian king Lugulbanda ...