Nania

I tend to believe that Nania was known by the same name in her original temples in the cities of the Sindhu Valley.

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The cult of Nania, or Bibi Nani as we know her, is thus one of the oldest in the world: it has survived for over four thousand three hundred years.

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Among other treasures the victor carried away from Erech to his capital city of Susa was the highly revered idol of the goddess Nania.

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Such was the esteem for Nania among the people of Mesopotamia that for no less than one thousand six hundred years successive Mesopotamian kings smarting under the humiliation of that defeat and theft, vainly sought the recovery of the idol.

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Over time as the great cities crumbled and were smothered by dust and a new culture took over, Nania changed form.

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I suspect that long before the king of Elam stole her statue from the temple at Erech, traders and craftsmen from the Sindhu Valley were carrying the cult of Nania westward to Mesopotamia.

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The city was pillaged and trashed, but before that came to pass, the idol of Nania was preserved and restored to the temple of Erech.

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Fans of the Narnia films will have to hope some other studio picks up the option to produce and distribute the third Nania film, The Voyage of The Dawn Treader, the Walt Disney Studios has passed on its option to renew the series.

Disney Drops Third Narnia Film | The Disney Blog 2008

For the learned mind, the identity of Bibi Nani is no enigma: she is Nana or Nania, the goddess worshipped in ancient Mesopotamia and Persia.

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Rashid suggests that Nania or Nana was imported into ancient Mesopotamia from the Indus civilization, where she was Eanna or Inanna and, to the Assyrians, Ishtar.

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