Talk:Ninurta

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John D. Croft 00:36, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Ninurta is the Foremost son of Enlil mothered by his half-sister, Ninmah/Ninharsag not Ninlil. Z. Sitchin "Lost Book of Enki" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.14.134.242 (talk) 07:09, 21 July 2011 (UTC) -- Please provide a reference to said 'lost book', seeing as Sitchin's work is fiction. 109.176.174.178 (talk) 19:17, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Ninurta = Nimrod??

 * People seeking to identify Enmerkar with Nimrod have said Enmerkar was identified with Ninurta when he was deified. Can that claim be verified independently of making Nimrod connections for either one?--JaredMithrandir (talk) 01:44, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Yes, it can. In fact, mainstream scholarship widely attests that Mesopotamian kings were often associated with and/or named after Sumerian deities (a relevant factor which I can't even find mention of in this article), so it's rather sketchy that the author of this article would have gone to such great lengths to promote the scholastic minority view (which is, in fact, contrary to archeological and anthropological evidence) that the god Ninurta and the king Nimrod were one and the same, especially considering that the records show that Ninurta was worshipped long before Nimrod ruled (i.e, before Nimrod was even born). Brian B. Smith (talk) 23:13, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Cuneiform rendering?
Is there any way to get a cuneiform rendering of the name? CielProfond (talk) 20:10, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Yes, there is. Various credible scholarly sources translate Ninurta as "Lord [of] Barley". Unfortunately, however, none of them seem to be currently available/accessible online. Brian B. Smith (talk) 23:16, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Ninib
The page Ninib redirects here, but there's no sense of why that redirect is applicable. Darker Dreams (talk) 06:16, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

I can't speak for the author of the article (who I assume created that redirect), but it stands to reason that it's because, in the inscriptions found at Lagash, Ninib appears as Ningirsu, the alternate Sumerian name for Ninurta. Brian B. Smith (talk) 23:29, 14 May 2022 (UTC)