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in this passage, this interpretation is not universally accepted. Enki promises to provide Dilmun with clear water, and subsequently does so, which is most likely meant to highlight his role as a deity associated with water. The early proposal that Dilmun is presented as a paradise in this section of
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A goddess also named Ninsikila subsequently reappears as one of the eight deities who are meant to relive Enki from the pains he was experiencing. According to Dina Katz, it is possible that a different deity than Meskilak was meant in this case, perhaps Ninsiki, who was associated with wool who
520:. The name Ninsikila is reinterpreted as "lady bearing hair" to reflect the problem she was meant to deal with. After Enki is healed, all the deities are assigned new roles, and she is put in charge of Magan. This toponym referred to the area corresponding to modern 437:
under the name Ninsikila. She is introduced in the beginning of the narrative as the goddess of Dilmun, and asks Enki for help, as the land she rules over, which he assigned to her, is a desert. While it is sometimes assumed that she is synonymous with
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counterpart of Meskilak based on the reinterpretation of her name as Ninsikila, to be understood as "the one related to purification rites," though this view is not universally accepted. The name Nintilmun, "lady of Dilmun," mentioned in the
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from Nippur according to her "does create the impression that the two are the same goddess." Manfred Krebernik also assumes that the latter Ninsikila is Meskilak. The other seven deities mentioned in the same passage are
395:. A bilingual hymn treats Meskilak as a male deity identical with Inzak, and identifies him as the counterpart of Nabu and spouse of a goddess named Šuluḫḫītum. It has been proposed that she might have originated as an 228:
According to Manfred Krebernik, the deity PA.NI.PA, who is attested in texts from Failaka Island, might be analogous to Meskilak. The reading of her name is not certain, though possibilities such as
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from Failaka, Lā'û-la-PA.NI.PA, "truly a skillful one is PA.NI.PA," which most likely belonged to a Dilmunite princess. Another similar object refers to her as "she who knows the seed of Inzak of
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Dalley, Stephanie (2013). "Gods from north-eastern and north-western Arabia in cuneiform texts from the First Sealand Dynasty, and a cuneiform inscription from Tell en-Naṣbeh, c.1500 BC".
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Meskilak is not certain, and various proposals have been made by researchers. According to Gianni Marchesi, due to the fact that contacts between Mesopotamia and Dilmun go back to the
535:, in which the eponymous god entrusts her with maintaining Dilmun. According to Dina Katz, this passage might have influenced the role she plays in the beginning of the myth 121:, often interpreted as her spouse by researchers. An alternative proposal is that he was her son. An attested variant of Meskilak's name is Mesikila. The origin of the 410:, might also plausibly refer to Meskilak. A connection between her and Laḫamun is even more uncertain. The latter deity occurs in god lists as an alternate name of 91:, and might have started to be viewed as a goddess rather than a god due to the similarity of the names. Under her Mesopotamian name Meskilak appears in the myths 236:
assumes she and Meskilak were two separate goddesses who fulfilled the same role in relation to Inzak in two separate locations. PA.NI.PA is attested in a
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Glassner, Jean-Jacques (2009) . "Dilmun, Magan and Meluhha: Some Observations on Language, Toponymy, Anthroponymy and Theonymy". In Reade, Julian (ed.).
358:, possibly a Mesopotamian who came to reside in Dilmun. Both of the deities are asked to guard the life of the inhabitant of Nippur in these documents. 176: 197:") existed somewhere in Dilmun according to Mesopotamian sources, including a list of temples and other texts. It is mentioned in an inscription from 300:, and it is possible that the similarity of his name to Meskilak's was in part responsible for the fact he later came to be viewed as a goddess. 1802: 1850: 251:." Meskilak herself (or under her primary name, if the identification with PA.NI.PA is accepted) is present in sources from this island too. 143:." Piotr Steinkeller also considers it possible that her name came from this language, and assumes that she might have developed in the 1167: 75:, commonly assumed to be her spouse. The origin of her name is a subject of scholarly dispute. She is also attested in texts from 1778: 1654: 1583: 1322: 1180: 1150: 334:, are referenced in greeting formulas in letters exchanged between Enlil-kidinnī (also known under the name Ili-liya), the 307:
is the oldest known reference to Meskilak in a Mesopotamian source. It states that at the orders of the Mesopotamian god
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or reinterpretations meant to fit local theology, and do not necessarily represent their actual etymology. According to
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Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources
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in the 1940s, is no longer considered plausible. Gianni Marchesi notes that a variant of the text known from
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in the third and second millennium BCE, though in the first millennium BCE it instead came to designate
479:." The entire section of the myth focused on Meskilak might have originally been a separate narrative. 151:
instead argues that the attested Mesopotamian explanations of her name represent ancient examples of
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This article is about the Dilmunite goddess. For the Mesopotamian deity associated with Lisin, see
371:, the "lord of the sea," and ends with her. The other three deities present in it are Lugalidda, 1856: 1845: 475:. It has been argued that the toponyms listed reflect the "contemporary commercial horizons of 1643:
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as well. In texts from this area, her name could be transcribed as Ninsikila, written
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ending, is more likely to be an indication of non-Sumerian origin, as in the cases of
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might indicate an analogous equation between their wives, Meskilak and
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It is possible that Dilmunites themselves associated Meskilak with
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Manfred Krebernik argues that the equation between Inzak and
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as well as a phonetic reading, Panipa, have been proposed.
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It is assumed Meskilak was one of the two main deities of
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A temple dedicated to Meskilak and Inzak, the Ekarra (
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in Meskilak's name, while sometimes interpreted as a
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Index

Ninsikila
Dilmun
Inzak
Dilmun
Inzak
Mesopotamia
Ninsikila
Lisin
Enki
Ninhursag
Dilmun
Inzak
theonym
Ubaid period
Sumerian
me
Uruk period
Jean-Jacques Glassner
word play
Joan Goodnick Westenholz
genitive
Tishpak
Latarak
Khaled al-Nashef
de
Sumerian
quay
Failaka Island
Neo-Babylonian
Nebuchadnezzar II

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