Ninurta

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Ninurta - a solar deity; firstborn of Bel and consort was Gula; god of war and the chase and agriculture; sometimes identified with biblical Nimrod

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Babylon - the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia

Sumer - an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC

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Lambert (1986) first acknowledged that Enuma elis borrows elements from Anzu to depict Marduk as the new Ninurta, the implications of which were highlighted by Machinist: "The similarities with and modifications of the Anzu text...

Blood on the Wind and the Tablet of Destinies: Intertextuality in Anzu, Enuma elis, and Erra and Isum

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But by the end of the millennium he'd been absorbed by Ninurta, the war-god of the great Sumerian religious capital of Nippur, sacred city of Enlil, and the paramount deity of the Sumerian pantheon.

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Basandose en el analisis de mitos y cuentos como la leyenda de Perseo, el mito de los Argonautas, la epopeya de Gilgamesh o el texto sumerio Ninurta y el Assaku, Burkert intentara demostrar que en todos ellos puede hallarse la arquitectura descripta por Propp.

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For example, in the Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon: "May Ninurta, leader of the gods, fell you with his fierce arrow, and fill the plain with your corpses, give your flesh to eagles and vultures to feed upon." (20) "Let dogs and pigs eat your flesh, and may your spirit have no one to take care of and pour libation to him." (21) "May the earth not receive your body for burial, may the bellies of dogs and pigs be your burial place." (22) Clearly, victorious kings treated their vanquished foes savagely.

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In this myth with an Akkadian or a Semitic origin, Queen of the dragons of darkness, Tiamat or the bird-god Zu fights against Ninurta, the god-leader of the gods of light and order for the tablets of destiny.