The traditional view that goddesses were associated mainly with the fertility domain in a personal sphere of Mesopotamian religiosity, based on their maternal/ sexual assets, continues to prevail in the scrutiny of particular sources. Indeed, even if the feminine arouses ideas of prosperity in a broad sense, the tendency to typify their roles, as well as to relegate their agency(ies) to a secondary level, still endures.
Vera Gonçalves (2024) studied this question.