symbolic animals. In Mesopotamian astronomy, Damgalnuna was identified with the constellation Wagon of Heaven, corresponding to Ursa Minor. Associations with other deities Damgalnuna was the wife of Enki (Ea). In the myth Enki and Ninhursag, she and the eponymous goddess are treated as the same deity. However, Dina Katz points out that they were usually separate, and Ninhursag's husband was Šulpae. Deities considered to be children of Enki and Damgalnuna include Nanshe, Asalluhi, Marduk and Enbilulu. In a variant of the Weidner god list, Damgalnuna is equated with Kiša, the wife of the river god Idlurugu. An Emesal vocabulary apparently mistakes her and her husband for the primordial deities Enki and Ninki. Despite their similar names, the two Enkis were not identical. Multiple alternate names are assigned to Damgalnuna in the god list An = Anum (tablet II, lines 173-184), including Ningikuga and Ninti. It has been argued that the latter name is also used to refer to her in the Hymn to Ninkasi, where this goddess is the mother of the eponymous beer deity. According to Antoine Cavigneaux and Manfred Krebernik, Ningikuga as a name of a spouse of Enki is to be distinguished with the use of this name to refer to the mother of Ningal or to Ningal herself. The deities Ḫasīsu and Uznu, "wisdom" and "ear," were considered Damgalnuna;s divine attendants (sukkals). Worship The worship of Damgalnuna is attested in all periods of history of ancient Mesopotamia, though the scope of her cult gradually declined. She already appears in the Early Dynastic zame hymns. According to this source, her cult center was Eridu. A first millennium BCE hymn to Nanaya which lists various city goddesses also preserves information about her association with this city, though it also addresses her as the "Queen of Kullaba." Another city considered to be Damgalnuna's cult center was Malgium, located to the south of Eshnunna. Both of her names, Damgalnuna and Damkina, appear in texts from this city. She is listed as one of its deities in the Code of Hammurabi. Two of its rulers, Takil-ilišu and Ipiq-Ishtar, referred to themselves as appointed to their position by her and Ea. The temple of the pair located in this city might have been the Enamtila, "house of life," mentioned in an inscription of Takil-ilišu. A temple dedicated to Damgalnuna also existed in Nippur. It was built by Shulgi. A metrological text from