Nabu’s Family Tree

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Family

• Marduk(parent),Sarpanitu(parent)— Marriage

  Sarpanitu, Lady of the Esagila, was wife of Marduk and mother of Nabu, the god of writing who held his own temple at Borsippa near Babylon.

• Tashmetum(spouse)— Marriage

  Tashmetum, goddess of listening and prayer, was Nabu's wife and was worshipped alongside him at Borsippa.

Rules over

• Ezida

  Nabu presided over Ezida, the 'House of Truth' in Borsippa, his seat of scribal wisdom from which he traveled each New Year to Babylon to inscribe the fates.

Associated with

• Tablets of Destiny

  Each New Year at the Akitu festival, Nabu traveled from Borsippa to Babylon to inscribe the fates of gods and mortals onto the Tablets of Destiny. Once his reed stylus touched the clay, the decree was sealed and irrevocable.