She is mentioned by the side of Nin-khar-sag.

We are still in the period where local associations formed a controlling factor in ensuring the popularity of a deity, and while the goddesses attached to the gods of the important centers are still differentiated, the tendency already exists to designate the female consorts simply as the 'goddess,'-- to apply to all, the traits that may once have been peculiar to one.

As we pass from one age to the other, there is an increasing difficulty in keeping the various local 'goddesses' apart.

Even the names become interchangeable; and since these goddesses all represented essentially the same principle of generation and fertility, it was natural that with the union of the Babylonian states they should become merged into one great mother-goddess.

A 'local' goddess who retains rather more of her individuality than others, is Nana.
Her name is again playfully interpreted by the Babylonians--through association with Nin--as 'the lady' _par excellence_.