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Meaning & History
The name of an early goddess of Southern Mesopotamia associated with writing and the netherworld. Her name means "wine (or vine) of the heavens (or the god An 2)", deriving from the Sumerian element ĝeštin ("vine, wine, bunch of grapes"). She was worshipped into the Old Babylonian period under both this name, and the Akkadian name Belet-seri.