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Ninmena was a Mesopotamian goddess who represented the deified crown. She was closely associated with the deified scepter, Ninĝidru, and with various goddesses of birth, such as Ninhursag.
Ninmena appears among the nine goddesses of birth enumerated after Šulpae in the Nippur god list and in a similar enumeration of six deities in the Isin god list, but she is absent from the analogous section of An = Anum, which only lists Ninhursag, Ninmah, Dingirmaḫ, Aruru and Nintur. It is a matter of scholarly debate if by the Old Babylonian period these names were understood as belonging to different goddesses who came to be conflated with each other, or local variants of a single deity. Joan Goodnick Westenholz argued that in the case of Ninmena, syncretism would be limited to literary texts. The so-called Archive of Mystic Heptads labels Ninmena as the "Bēlet-ilī of the city of Utab" alongside other goddesses of birth and their cult centers.
A hymn attributed to the Sealand Dynasty mentions Ninmena in association with Nippur as a caretaker of the "Lady-of-Nippur" (Nin-Nibru) though a connection between her and this city is not present in any other known sources.
A lexical text from Emar presents Ninmena as analogous to the Hurrian religion mountain goddess Lelluri.
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