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Mullissu is a goddess who is the consort of the Assyrian god Asshur. Mullissu may be identical with the Sumerian goddess Ninlil, wife of the god Enlil, which would parallel the fact that Asshur himself was modeled on Enlil. Mullissu's name was written dnin.líl. Mullissu is identified with Ishtar of Nineveh in the Neo-Assyrian Empire times. Also proposed to be Mullissu is a goddess whom Herodotus called Mylitta and identified with Aphrodite.

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