gula

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gula

(ˈɡuːlə; ˈɡjuːlə)
n
gluttony
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Noun1.Gula - the Babylonian goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta
Babylon - the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia
2.gula - eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)gula - eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
overeating, gluttony
deadly sin, mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; "theologians list seven mortal sins"
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The core of the book - and this is where Avalos makes his greatest contribution - is the second chapter, "Mesopotamia: The Temples of Gula/Ninisina." The goddess was known as Gula in both Babylonia and Assyria, and, at least in Isin, was known from the mid-third millennium and later as Ninisina, literally "Lady of Isin." It seems likely to me that she was known not only at Isin but at other cities as well in the third millennium as Nintinugga. (A votive stone bowl fragment which was a surface find at Nippur has [dNin-din-u][g.sub.5]-ga, OIP 97, p.
Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: The Role of The Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel

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