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Updated: May 15, 2025
Nin-dim-su, Ba-kad, Pap-u, Belit-ekalli, Shumalia, and Shukamuna occur at the close of the inscription of Melishikhu, among the gods asked to curse the transgressors of the royal decree. That some of these are Cassite deities imported into Babylonia, and whose position in the pantheon was therefore of a temporary character, there seems little reason to question.
From Naram-Sin, ruler of Agade, on through the period of Cassite rule, the kings of Nippur proudly include in their titles that of 'builder of the Temple of Bel at Nippur, measuring their attachment to the deity by the additions and repairs made to his sacred edifice. Besides the kings of Agade, the rulers of other places pay their devotions to Bel of Nippur.
Hostilities with Elam are frequent before and after the days of Hammurabi. If Gilgamesh, as seems certain, is a Cassite, the conflict between him and Khumbaba would represent a rivalry among Cassitic or Elamitic hordes for the possession of Uruk and of the surrounding district.
Shukamuna, accordingly, was the Cassite god of war, who, like Nergal, symbolized the mid-day sun, that is, the raging and destructive power. Shumalia is the consort of Shukamuna , and is invoked as the 'lady of the shining mountains. Nin-dim-su is a title of Ea, as the patron of arts.
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