(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in blue)

 

Aya / Aja Quotes From Texts

Aya / Aja = Utu’s spouse

 

         “She raised her hands to Shamash:…

         May Aya your bride fear you not and keep you mindful

And may she also commend him

         To those who watch over the hours of the night! …”

        

         “May Aya…… life, …… your strength! …”

        

         “Aja, the Bride, without fear remind you,

         and command also the Watchmen of the Night, the stars,

         and at night your father (father-in-law), Sin (Nannar, Utu’s father) ….”

 

Namrat Quote From Text

Namrat / Aya / Aia = Utu’s spouse

 

         “The god Numucda (Utu) participated in the festival;

         his beloved daughter Adjar-kidug participated in the festival,

         his wife Namrat, the lovely woman participated in the festival.

         In the city, bronze cem drums were rumbling,

         and the seven ala drums resounded as strong men, girdled champions,

         entered the wrestling house to compete with each other for Numucda in the temple of Inab …”

 

Niniagar Quotes From Text

Niniagar = Utu’s spouse Aya

stewardess of Ur’s storehouses

 

        “Ningubalag (Utu) took an unfamiliar path away from the Ja-bur (Sipper).

        Niniagar wept bitter tears all alone.

        ‘Alas, the destroyed city, my destroyed house,’ she cried bitterly.

         Its sacred Jipar of en-ship was defiled.

        Its en priest was snatched from the Jipar and carried off to enemy territory …”

 

        “The great stewardess Niniagar ran away from the storehouse ….”(of Ur)

 

        Adjar-kidug Quotes From Texts

Adjar-kidug = Utu & Aya’s daughter

 

        “At that time a festival was announced in the city; a festival was announced in the city of Inab.

         (Martu said:) Come, friends, let us go, let us go there, let us visit the ale-houses of Inab, let us go there’ …”

 

        “The god Numucda (Utu) participated in the festival;

        his beloved daughter Adjar-kidug participated in the festival,

        his wife Namrat (Aya), the lovely woman participated in the festival …”

 

        “Rejoicing over Martu, Numucda offered him silver, but he would not accept it.

        He offered jewels, but he would not accept them.

        Having done so a second time, having done so a third time

        (Martu says): Where does your silver lead? Where do your jewels lead?

        I, Martu, would rather marry your daughter, I would rather marry your daughter Adjar-kidug.’…”

        “(Numucda says:) You …… the wife with calves, as a marriage gift.

         Milch cows shall feed the calves.

         In the byre the calf and the cow shall lie down.

         Milch cows shall live in the …….

         Suckling calves shall stay at their right side.

         You must give your word thus and only thus, and then I will give you my daughter Adjar- kidug‘ ...”

 

          “My girlfriend, why would you marry Martu? …”

         “Adjar-kidug replies to her girlfriend: ‘I will marry Martu!’ …”

 

Sigsig Quote From Text

Sigsig = Utu’s son god of dreams

 

         “Sisig (a god of dreams), the son of Utu,

         will provide light for him in the nether world, the place of darkness. …”