The feast celebrated in the spring was sacred to Jal, and that in the autumn to the mother-goddess.
The elders of Uruk beg his mother, the mother-goddess Aruru (a form of Ishtar), to restrain him.
It was the seat of the worship of Atys or Cybele, a goddess that seems to have been kindred to the mother-goddess of the Hittites.
It was chiefly this helpful Mother-goddess to whom the wretched were appealing when they were burnt for witchcraft.
