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Uttu was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with weaving. It has been suggested that she was connected with spiders, though the evidence is limited to a single text which might reflect scribal speculation. She was worshiped in Babylon and possibly in Early Dynastic Umma. She appears in multiple myths, such as Enki and Ninhursag and Enki and the World Order.
It has been argued that Uttu was envisioned as a spider spinning a web, but the evidence in favor of this view is limited.
The "Debate between sheep and grain" or "Myth of cattle and grain" is a Sumerian creation myth, written on clay tablets in the mid to late 3rd millennium BC.
A Sumerian group of two separate shell inlay fragments forming the body and head of a sheep. c. 27th–24th century BC. From a Mayfair gallery, London, UK.