Significance: Nippur, the religious center of Sumer, celebrated a similar festival for Enlil, the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon.
May be associated with Nippur [coordinates n="32.1259" e="45.2254" z="6"], the religious center of Sumer.
The earliest known mention of a female demon of similar name appears in the Sumerian King List– an ancient manuscript recording the kings and dynasties of Sumer dating from about 2400 BC.
Enki was associated with the city of Eridu, one of the oldest and most important cities in Sumer.
Mutwa argues that African civilizations were the originators of many myths and cultural practices that later spread to Sumer and other ancient Near Eastern cultures.
Sumer was a main place for trade so it was obviously multi-cultural.
In Sumarian: Sumer or Shin'ar
In that telling, Nibiru is a long-period world whose people need gold for atmospheric repair, land on Earth to mine, engineer genetic workers, face a flood, rule Sumer as gods, and leave an open question of return.
She first appeared as Lilitu, one of a class of wind or storm demons in Sumer, in about 4000 BC.