Uttu’s Family Tree

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Family

• Enki(parent),Ninkurra(parent)— Consort

  Enki pursued his granddaughter Ninkurra as she walked along the riverbank in Dilmun, and from their nine-day union the weaving goddess Uttu was born.

• Enki(spouse)— Consort

  Enki wooed the weaving goddess Uttu with gifts of cucumbers, apples, and grapes, overcoming her resistance, and lay with her in Dilmun — though Ninhursag would soon undo what the union had sown.

Associated with

• Enki,Ninhursag

  Ninhursag intervened to protect Uttu from Enki's advances, wiping his seed from the weaving goddess's body and planting it in the earth, where it grew into the eight sacred plants that Enki would later devour.