Ningirsu
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Ninĝirsu was a Mesopotamian god regarded as the tutelary deity of the city of Ĝirsu, and as the chief god of the local pantheon of the state of Lagash. He shares many aspects with the god Ninurta. Ninĝirsu was identified as a local hypostasis of Ninurta in a syncretism that is documented at the latest by the time of Gudea in the late third millennium BC. Assyriologists are divided on the question of whether they were originally two manifestations of the same god, or two separate deities.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Mesopotamian
- Deity.name
- Ninĝirsu
- Deity.parents
- Enlil and Ninhursag
- Deity.siblings
- Nanshe
- Deity.offspring
- Igalim, Shulshaga, seven daughters including Ḫegirnuna and Urnunta-ea
- Deity.deity_of
- God of war and agriculture
- Deity.cult_center
- Ĝirsu
- Deity.image
- Stele of Vultures detail 01 reverse.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Fragment of the Stele of Vultures showing Ninĝirsu. He holds a mace and a battle net in which men from Umma are imprisoned.The battle net is closed by his composite emblem, which represents the Anzû over two lions. Musée du Louvre.
- Deity.symbols
- lion, composite emblem representing the Anzû over lions, sevenfold mace, plow
- Deity.consort
- Bau
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- Stele of Vultures 2.jpg
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16 sectionsContents
- Ninĝirsu and Ninurta
- Name and attributes
- Iconography
- Association with other deities
- Worship
- Early attestations
- First dynasty of Lagash
- Neo Sumerian Period
- Cult personnel, festivals, and personal worship
- Late attestations
- In Literature
- The Gudea Cylinders
- Lugale and the Epic of Anzu
- Other compositions
- References
- Bibliography
Ninĝirsu was a Mesopotamian god regarded as the tutelary deity of the city of Ĝirsu, and as the chief god of the local pantheon of the state of Lagash. He shares many aspects with the god Ninurta. Ninĝirsu was identified as a local hypostasis of Ninurta in a syncretism that is documented at the latest by the time of Gudea in the late third millennium BC. Assyriologists are divided on the question of whether they were originally two manifestations of the same god, or two separate deities.
Ninĝirsu's two main aspects were that of a warlike god, and that of a god connected with agricultural fertility. In Lagash, he was particularly associated with a composite emblem depicting the Anzû bird over two lions. It could sometimes represent him in cultic contexts.