Ningal’s Family Tree

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Family

• Sin(spouse),Ereshkigal(child),Inanna(child),Shamash(child)— Marriage

  Sin the moon god and his consort Ningal bore Shamash who lights the day, Inanna who rules love and war, and Ereshkigal who reigns over the dead — a family whose children divide the cosmos between sun, earth, and underworld.

  ⚠ Ereshkigal's parentage varies across traditions. Some texts make her a daughter of Anu rather than Sin and Ningal, though her status as Inanna's sister is consistent.

• Ningikuga(parent)

  Ningikuga, the lady of the pure reed, bore Ningal, who would become the beloved consort of the moon god Sin and mother of Inanna and Shamash.

Associated with

• Anu,Enlil

  Ningal prostrated herself before Anu and Enlil, weeping and pleading that they spare Ur from destruction, but the gods had decreed the city's fall and her tears could not alter the word of the divine assembly.