Duttur, the sheep goddess, was mother of both Dumuzi the shepherd and his sister Geshtinanna. She mourned Dumuzi's capture by the underworld demons and interpreted his prophetic dreams foretelling his fate.
In the Dream of Dumuzi, Duttur interpreted her son's ominous dreams — visions of reeds falling, trees uprooted, and his sheepfold overturned — as omens of the Gallu demons' imminent pursuit.
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