Sin (mythology) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sīn (Nanna)
God of the Moon
Impression of the cylinder seal of Ḫašḫamer, ensi (governor) of Iškun-Sin c. 2100 BC. The seated figure is probably king Ur-Nammu, bestowing the governorship on Ḫašḫamer, who is led before him by Lamma (protective goddess). Sin/Nanna himself is indicated in the form of a crescent.
Planet	Moon
Symbol	Bull, Crescent
Personal information
Consort	Ningal
Children	Shamash, Inanna

Sīn or Suen (Akkadian: 𒂗𒍪 EN.ZU, pronounced Su'en, Sîn) or Nanna was the god of the moon in the Mesopotamian religions of Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and one of the Babylonian gods.

Nanna is a Sumerian deity, the son of Enlil and Ninlil, and became identified with the Semitic Sīn. The two chief seats of Nanna's/Sīn's worship were Ur in the south of Mesopotamia and Harran in the north. A moon god by the same name was also worshipped in South Arabia.

Reconstruction of the Ziggurat of Ur, the main shrine to Nanna, based on the 1939 reconstruction by Leonard Woolley

Related pages

• Babylonian Gods
• Babylon
• Babylonia
• Babylonian religion

Images for kids

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  Kusuh (right), the Hurrian moon god, in Yazılıkaya

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  Depiction of a libation made in front of the Anatolian moon god Arma (right)

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  Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon, incorrectly described as the deity worshiped in Harran by Herodian.

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In Spanish: Sin para niños