Usmu - Deity - OMNIKA Mythology

About this deity

Usmû was a minor Sumerian deity associated with being a minister of Enki (Ea). He was often depicted as having two faces.

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Source record No.p. 75, fig. 60MediumPrint sketchImage date1992CreatorTessa RickardsSource noteslack and Green, GDS, 75 [Fig. 60].

Source record No.The Adda SealMediumCylinder sealMaterialTerracotta [?]Image date2011CreatorThe British Museum CollectionsSource notes"Description: English: Detail of The Adda Seal. The figures can be identified as gods by their pointed hats with multiple horns. The figure with streams of water and fish flowing from his shoulders is Ea (Sumerian Enki), god of subterranean waters and of wisdom. Behind him stands Usimu, his two-faced vizier (chief minister)."

Also known as

Usmu (normalized)UsmûIsimud

Parent belief system

Sumerian Religion · Polytheistic · 7 myths

Sumerian religion refers to spiritual beliefs practiced from ca. 4500-1900 BCE in Mesopotamia, or modern-day southern Iraq. Many deities were diffused into other Mesopotamian cultures.
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Background

Usmu was a minor Sumerian deity associated with being the minister of Enki (Ea). He is often shown with two faces.^[1]

Notes

🡩Black and Green, GDS, 75.

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MLA Modern Language Association (8th ed.)

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Usmu." OMNIKA – World Mythology Index, OMNIKA Foundation, 27 Jun. 2020, omnika.org/stable/760. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.

APA American Psychological Association (6th ed.)

OMNIKA (2020, June 27). Usmu. Retrieved from https://omnika.org/stable/760

CMS Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.)

OMNIKA Foundation Contributors. "Usmu." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created June 27, 2020. Accessed January 2, 2025. https://omnika.org/stable/760.

Bibliography

Black, Jeremy, and Anthony Green. Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary. Illustrations by Tessa Rickards. London, United Kingdom: The British Museum Press, 1992.

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Sumerian Belief system