Gula (goddess)
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Gula was a Mesopotamian goddess of medicine, portrayed as a divine physician and midwife. Over the course of the second and first millennia BCE, she became one of the main deities of the Mesopotamian
A healing goddess with a dog on a kudurru
Kudurru of Gula, displayed in the Louvre
Gula seated upon a shrine, with a dog beside her on a kudurru. Kassite period, 15th-11th century BCE. Iraq Museum, Baghdad
Abu (god)
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Abu was a Mesopotamian god. His character is poorly understood, though it is assumed he might have been associated with vegetation and with snakes. He was often paired with the deity gu2-la2, initiall
Gula (goddess)
…was initially an epithet of Ishtar. Jeremiah Peterson states that Gula (𒀭𒄖𒆷) and Gu2-la2 (𒀭𒄘𒇲), who frequently appears in god lists in association with Abu, were most likely understood as two orthographies of a single theonym, though he accepts the possibility that they were originally separate deities…
A statue formerly believed to be a depiction of Abu, now instead assumed to represent a worshiper.