Inanna
Ningal
['poonam', 'hagar', 'estrid svendsdatter', 'flavia maximiana theodora', 'sophia dorothea', 'oeyo', 'tarita teriipaia', 'nancy witcher langhorne', 'qutlugh nigar khanum', 'laura ingalls wilder', 'countess georgina von wilczek', 'elizabeth stuart', 'fulvia', 'margaret sambiria', 'atossa', 'diana mitford', 'milcah', 'paula deen', 'madri', 'isetnofret', 'benazir', 'antonia minor', 'lupita tovar', 'margery wentworth', 'calliope', 'gladys mills phipps', 'nazli sabri', 'mary anna randolph custis lee', 'pyrrha', 'elizabeth dickens', 'servilia', 'lois weisberg', 'empress dugu', 'licinia eudoxia', 'suzanne mubarak', 'julissa', 'bianca maria visconti', 'neetu singh', 'nancy reagan', 'stratonice', 'lois griffin', 'constanze', 'hearst', 'philippa', 'invisible woman', 'ono', 'farah pahlavi', 'jiang yuan', 'anticleia', 'mutemwiya', 'makeda', 'queen victoria', 'linda eastman mccartney', 'astrid', 'oda krohg', 'maybelle carter', 'sue ellen ewing', 'connie booth', 'queen anne', 'lady mills', 'cleopatra vii', 'norodom monineath', 'martha wayles skelton jefferson', 'susan sarandon', 'valeria messalina', 'pat nixon', 'olympias', 'mrinalini sarabhai', 'kris jenner', 'joyce summers', 'michele dotrice', 'adelaide del vasto', 'violant', 'deianeira', 'martha stewart', 'hippodamia', 'fanny vandegrift', 'crown princess mary', 'lillian lux', 'tagawa matsu', 'katarina', 'terentia', 'frances dee', 'janet lee bouvier', 'empress dowager xiaozhuang', 'themis', 'tetisheri', 'sibylla', 'carlota joaquina', 'lisa marie presley', 'catherine mumford', 'ermengarde de beaumont', 'empress wu', 'loren', 'morgause', 'maria feodorovna', 'ranavalona i', 'styx', 'theodora']
Adad
Adad in Akkadian and Ishkur in Sumerian, are the names of the storm-god in the Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian pantheon. The two names are usually written by the logogram dIM. The Akkadian god Adad was the northwest Semitic god Hadad introduced to Mesopotamia most probably by the Amorites. In Akkadian, Adad is also known as Ramman ("Thunderer") cognate with Aramaic Rimmon which was a byname of the Aramaic/ Arabic Hadad. Ramman was formerly incorrectly taken by many scholars to be an independent Assyrian-Babylonian god later identified with the Amorite god Hadad. The Sumerian Ishkur appears in the list of gods found at Fara but was of far less importance than the Akkadian Adad later became, probably partly because storms and rain are scarce in southern Babylonia and agriculture there depends on irrigation instead. Also, the gods Enlil and the Assyrian Ninurta also had storm god features which decreased Ishkur's distinctiveness. He sometimes appears as the assistant or companion of one or the other of the two. When Enki distributed the destinies, he made Ishkur inspector of the cosmos. In one litany Ishkur is proclaimed again and again as "great radiant bull, your name is heaven" and also called son of An, lord of Karkara; twin-brother of Enki, lord of abundance, lord who rides the storm, lion of heaven. In other texts Adad/Ishkur is sometimes son of the moon god Nanna/Sin by Ningal and brother of Utu/Shamash and Inanna/Ishtar. He is also occasionally son of Enlil. Adad/Ishkur's consort (both in early Sumerian and later Assyrian texts) was Shala, a goddess of grain, who is also sometimes associated with the god Dagan. She was also called Gubarra in the earliest texts. The fire god Gibil (named Gerra in Akkadian) is sometimes the son of Ishkur and Shala. Adad/Ishkur's special animal is the bull. He is naturally identified with the Anatolian storm-god Teshub. Occasionally Adad/Ishkur is identified with the god Amurru, the god of the Amorites. The Babylonian center of Adad/Ishkur's cult was Karkara in the south, his chief temple being E. Karkara; his spouse Shala his was worshipped in a temple named E. Durku. But among the Assyrians his cult was especially developed along with his warrior aspect. During the Middle Assyrian Empire, from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser I (1115–1077), Adad had a double sanctuary in Assur which he shared with Anu. Anu is often associated with Adad in invocations. The name Adad and various alternate forms and bynames (Dadu, Bir, Dadda) are often found in the names of the Assyrian kings. Adad/Ishkur presents two aspects in the hymns, incantations, and votive inscriptions. On the one hand he is the god who, through bringing on the rain in due season, causes the land to become fertile, and, on the other hand, the storms that he sends out bring havoc and destruction. He is pictured on monuments and cylinder seals (sometimes with a horned helmet) with the lightning and the thunderbolt (sometimes in the form of a spear), and in the hymns the sombre aspects of the god on the whole predominate. His association with the sun-god, Shamash, due to the natural combination of the two deities who alternate in the control of nature, leads to imbuing him with some of the traits belonging to a solar deity. Shamash and Adad became in combination the gods of oracles and of divination in general. Whether the will of the gods is determined through the inspection of the liver of the sacrificial animal, through observing the action of oil bubbles in a basin of water or through the observation of the movements of the heavenly bodies, it is Shamash and Adad who, in the ritual connected with divination, are invariably invoked. Similarly in the annals and votive inscriptions of the kings, when oracles are referred to, Shamash and Adad are always named as the gods addressed, and their ordinary designation in such instances is bele biri ("lords of divination").