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===''Others''=== Ninhursag appears in the text ''[[Song of the hoe|Creator of the Hoe]]'', where she is referred to as "the mother of the gods".{{sfn | ''www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk'' | 2009}} In the [[Anzû]] epic, Ninhursag under the name Bēlet-ilī or Mami speaks in support of Ninurta her son, and is given the epithet "The Mistress of All Gods".{{sfnp|Dalley|1998|p=204}} In another myth involving her son, ''Ninurta's Exploits'', the titular god goes out to conquer the mountain land to the north of Babylonia, and piles the bodies of its stony kings into a great burial mound.{{sfn | Steinkeller | 2019 | p=988}} He then dedicates this mountain to his mother, once Ninmah, now renamed Ninhursag after the mound.{{sfn | Steinkeller | 2019 | p=988}} Damkina is the mother of [[Marduk]] in [[Enūma Eliš]].{{sfnp|Dalley|1998|p=235}}
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