Comes Gula
to live in this beautiful home.
Come with warm feelings of friendship
Bring your intelligence
Your energy and your passion
To join us with your goodwill.
Burn brightly at my hearth
Burn always in my soul
You are welcome here
I remember you....
Mesopotamia's goddess of healing par excellence was Gula, patron of physicians, whose name, actually a title, means "The Great One" (Black and Green 2003:101). Obviously the epithet displaced the original and now-lost divine name. She was also known as "Great Mother," "Mother Gula," and "Lady of Life." Gula was much invoked in healing rituals and incantations, by which those who were ill begged her assistance. They also used prayer-letters. Honoured in hymns, she was sometimes invoked in law codes and treaties.
Her main cult center was Isin, where she was identified with Nin-Isina, and resided in the great healing temple E-gal-makh "Exalted Palace" (George 1993: 88 #318). She also had temples in most other cities, with three at Babylon!
One document identifies a dog running about as "a messenger" from Gula.......
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