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Goddess Manzi' at, Manzât, Ma(n)zat, Manziat, Mazzi'at, Mazzât, Mazzêt (Akkadian, Elamite), Tir-ana (Sumerian)

Goddess primarily of Elam and associated with Susiana. Šimut, a netherworld and herald god, seems to have been her spouse, Lugal-gida was her son, and the goddess Sililitu(m) her vizier.

Her name was probably borrowed from Akkadian and means "Rainbow," as does the Sumerian Tir-ana, literally "Bow of Heaven." She is first attested in a treaty between Narām-Sîn of Akkad and a king of Susa. In the period 2000-1500 BCE she appears mainly in theophoric personal names.

Untaš-Napiriša commissioned a temple for her at Choga Zanbil, and a brick from modern Dhe-e-Nou indicates that Šutruk-Naḫḫunte similarly built a temple for her in that city. A stele of Šilḫak-Inšušinak I refers to a temple of Manzi'at that she shared with Šimut, from which reference it has generally been assumed that she was his wife. In an inscription from Ḫuldelutuš-Inšušinak she is referred to as "great lady," and the same king mentions a joint temple of Manzi'at and Šimut. Manzi'at is likely the same goddess as Mesopotamian Bēlet-āli(m). She had a sanctuary at Nippur and four shrines in Babylon. Manzi'at was also a manifestation of Ištar and part of the constellation Andromeda.

— from A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East by Frayne & Stuckey pp. 200-201

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