#ChthonicThursday: Nun-gal

Nun-gal, literally the Great Princess, was a Sumerian goddess of prisons, mercy and the underworld, worshipped in the Third Dynasty of Ur (Neo-Sumerian Empire, from 2112 to 2004 BC) in cities such as Nippur, Lagash, Umma, Susa, and Ur itself.

Today on my Patreon, we take a look at her and at how she’s described in the hymn “Nungal in the Ekur”, which is the primary source of information about this goddess.