Ninmena

Ninmena (also Nin Me En) is a Sumerian mother goddess.

• Here, in 'Where Flesh Came Forth' (𒍜𒌓𒁺𒀀), he set this very hoe to work; he had it place the first model of mankind in the brick mould. His Land started to break through the soil towards Enlil. He looked with favour at his black-headed people. Now the Anuna gods stepped forward to him, and did obeisance to him. They calmed Enlil with a prayer, for they wanted to demand the black-headed people from him. Ninmena, the lady who had given birth to the ruler, who had given birth to the king, now set human reproduction going.
  • Song of the Hoe, 3rd millennium BCE. Text online at the electronic text corpus of sumerian literature.