Damu Quotes From Texts
Worshiped in Isin, Healer, Doctor
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(gods in blue)
“She tests the surgical lancet; Nininsina sharpens the scalpel.
She has made perfect the divine powers of medicine,
and hands them over to her son, the king of Jirsi, the kindly Damu:
‘My son, pay attention to everything medical! Damu, pay attention to everything medical!’
He takes the bandages and wipes them;
he treats the bandages with embrocation, he treats the bandages with embrocation,
He mops up the blood and suppuration, and places a warm hand on the horrid wound.
My lady, the midwife of the mothers of the Land, is the chief doctor of the black-headed;
Nininsina, the daughter of An, hands this all over to her son, the king of Jirsi, the kindly Damu:
‘My son, pay attention to everything medical! Damu, pay attention to everything medical!
You will be praised for your diagnoses.’
Holy Nininsina performs for him her role as incantation priest, which Enki bestowed on her…”
“They have told Damu, the chief barber (physician) of Nunamnir, healer of the living,
to make the foreign countries bow at the feet of his father and mother!…”