He occupies a place usually assigned to the powerful demons who are regarded as the real owners of the soil.[206] Perhaps the most interesting of the minor deities during this second period is Gula.
As has just been stated, she is the consort of Ninib.

She is not mentioned in any of the inscriptions of this period till we come to the days of Nebuchadnezzar I., who invokes her as the bride of Eshara,--_i.e._, of the earth.[207] We also meet with her name in that of several individuals, Balatsu-Gula[208] and Arad-Gula,[209] and we have seen that she is also known as _Damu_ and _Mamu_, or _Meme_.

We have a proof, therefore, of her cult being firmly established at an early period of Babylonian history.

Her role is that of a 'life-giver,' in the widest sense of the word.

She is called the 'great physician,' who both preserves the body in health and who removes sickness and disease by the 'touch of her hand.' Gula is the one who leads the dead to a new life.