Ge’ez/Tigrinya translation of Sumerian God(s)
The contextual and symbolic etymology refers to Ninharsag as the goddess of childbirth and of mothers as she is also the fertility goddess. ‘Nin hars sega’, ‘Goddess, let me have a child’ tells us that the women used to beg the goddess for their child to be healthy and alive, as child immortality rate was very high in antediluvian times. ‘Damgualna’ could refer to the people associating themselves with her bloodline as Enki and Damkina/Ninhursag, a creation myth wherein the two deities were the one’s responsible for the creation of humanity. Her Assyrian name ‘Damkina’ also reaffirms that she was indeed the mother of humanity, which is were we get the name Mummu which stayed to this day with us as we still call our mothers, Mamma.
