Living Goddesses Presents Ingrid Norton Nammu and Tiamat: Looking for the Ocean Mother
Sun, May 17
|Virtual
Many creation stories from across the world begin with an ocean goddess birthing the cosmos into existence. The ancient Sumerian Nammu & Babylonian Tiamat are two such goddesses. Considered in light of modern ecology and art, these goddesses inspire us to reimagine our relationship with the ocean.
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May 17, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT
Virtual
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The Living Goddesses Series is a Space for Women to Gather in Community. Recordings will be offered at a later time for all to access the lecture portion of the presentation.
Nammu and Tiamat: Looking for the Ocean Mother
In some of the world's foundational written stories, the world begins with a great ocean goddess who births the other gods and the elements. How can myths of the ocean mother speak to us today? How might we view our relationship with the ocean as alive and create new myths for our personal and planetary future?
In this "Living Goddesses" session, writer, storyteller, scholar, and Myth Lab founder Ingrid Norton will take us into ancient Mesopotamian stories, where we glimpse the ocean mother Nammu in Sumerian texts from more than 5,000 years ago and where the ocean creatrix Tiamat is slain, but still at the bedrock of the world, in later…
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