Mullissu is a goddess who is the consort of the

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n god Asshur. Mullissu may be identical with the Sumerian goddess Ninlil, wife of the god Enlil, which would parallel the fact that Asshur himself was modeled on Enlil. Mullissu's name was written .Karlheinz Kessler, “Mylissa, Mylitta,” in ''Brill’s New Pauly'', Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 27 January 2021 Mullissu is identified with

Ishtar Inanna, also sux, 𒀭𒊩𒌆𒀭𒈾, nin-an-na, label=none is an List of Mesopotamian deities, ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with beauty, sex, Divine law, divine justice, and political p ...

of Nineveh in the

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times. Also proposed to be Mullissu is a goddess whom Herodotus called Mylitta and identified with

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. The name ''Mylitta'' may derive from Mulliltu or Mullitta, the Babylonian variant of ''Mullissu'', where one cult was connected with the in

Nippur Nippur ( Sumerian: ''Nibru'', often logographically recorded as , EN.LÍLKI, "Enlil City;"The Cambridge Ancient History: Prolegomena & Prehistory': Vol. 1, Part 1. Accessed 15 Dec 2010. Akkadian: ''Nibbur'') was an ancient Sumerian city. It wa ...

and the other with Kish (Sumer). ''Mulliltum'' was an epithet of Ninlil which appears as ''Mullissu'' in Neo-Assyrian as the wife of god Ashur. She is spelled mlš, here also as the consort of Asshur (''’šr''), in the

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inscription (A8) from Syria inscribed in Old Aramaic (eighth century BCE). Her Late Babylonian cult is reflected in the spelling mwlyt (''Mulit'') as transmitted in the Mandaic magical corpus of late antiquity.Karlheinz Kessler and Christa Müller-Kessler, “Spätbabylonische Gottheiten in spätantiken mandäischen Texten,” ''Zeitschrift für Assyriologie'' 89, 1999, pp. 70–72.

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Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses: Ninlil (Mulliltu, Mullissu, Mylitta) (goddess)
Mesopotamian goddesses Mesopotamian mythology Inanna {{MEast-myth-stub