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In Sumerian mythology, Nanna (Sin, Suen, Ashgirbabbar) is the moon god. He was the product of Enlil's rape of Ninlil. He travels across the sky in his gufa, with the stars and planets about him. Nanna was married to Ningal and they produced Inanna and Utu.
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In Sumerian mythology, Aia is a consort of Utu.
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In Sumerian mythology, Inanna is the sister of Utu. She is a dual deity, the goddess of warfare, aggression and lust for power and also childbirth and erotic attraction. In Sumerian mythology she must choose as a husband between Enkimdu and Dumuzi. Both gods were keen to marry her, but she eventually married Dumuzi.
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In Babylonian mythology, Shamash was the sun god and god of justice and divination. His light enable to see every misdeed and also see into the future. Every morning the scorpion men opened a gate in the vast mountain of Mashu and Shamash slowly climbed the mountain and as evening approached he rode his chariot towards another great mountain and disappeared inside. During the night Shamash travelled through the depths of the earth back to Mashu. Together with his wife, Aya, he had two children: Kittu, justice and Misharu, law and righteousness. Shamash relates to the Sumerian god Utu.
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In Sumerian mythology, Utu was the sun god and god of justice. He was the son of Nanna and Ningal. He goes to the underworld at the end of every day setting in the mountain of the west and rising in the mountain of the east. While in the underworld he decrees the fate of the dead. Utu relates to the Babylonian god Shamash.
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The Fibera KK-1 UTU was a Finnish single-seat Standard Class sailplane first flown in 1964. The Fibera KK-1 UTU was a high-wing cantilever monoplane of glass-fibre reinforced polyester plastic construction with a top speed of 250 kmh in smooth air.
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Utu is a Hanseman language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
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