Meme (Mesopotamian goddess)

[6] It is uncertain how did the connection between these two goddesses originally develop, but eventually Meme came to be fully absorbed by Gula, and her name became an alternate writing of the latter theonym.

[7] In a number of later Sumero-Akkadian bilingual texts, Meme occurs in place of Gula in the Sumerian version, though this pattern is not consistent, and the latter could also be "translated" as Nintinugga or even Damu.

[2] A deity named Meme, written dMEkà-kàME, served as the sukkal (divine attendant) of Ningal, the wife of the moon god Nanna, according to An = Anum.

[9] Richard L. Litke argues the glosses are unlikely to refer to an otherwise entirely unattested reading of the sign ME, and on this basis proposes that in another version of the list the deity Kakka, elsewhere in the same text equated with Ninkarrak, occupied Meme's position in the court of Ningal.

[3] Memešaga, presumed to be the same deity, was worshiped in Nippur in the Ur III period, and received offerings during the gusisu festival of Ninurta, though her importance in the religious life of this city was minor.

[3] The worship of Meme as an individual deity ended after the Old Babylonian period, and her cult fully merged with that of Gula, in contrast with these of Bau, Ninisina, Nintinugga and Ninkarrak, which did continue to be regarded as distinct in a limited scope.