Ninsikila- Mesopotamian GodDeity"Pure Lady"

Lady of Pure Dilmun

Ninsikila, whose name means "Pure Lady," was the patron goddess of Dilmun, the Sumerian paradise. She presided over a realm of primordial perfection. Sumerian texts describe Dilmun through a poetry of absence: no lion kills, no wolf snatches lambs, no old person says "I am old." The place had never been contaminated. It simply was pure.

The Petition for Water

In the myth of Enki and Ninhursag, set in Dilmun, the paradise is pure but lifeless. It has no fresh water. Ninsikila appeals to Enki, the god of fresh water and wisdom, to provide water for her land. Enki commands the sun god Utu to draw springs from the earth, and Dilmun transforms from barren purity into a verdant garden green with grain-yielding fields. The land that lacked nothing except water lacked the one thing that mattered. Once Enki answered Ninsikila's petition, her realm was complete.