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He is here duly entered in the list, where we read that "Etana, the shepherd who ascended to heaven, who subdued all lands", ruled in the city of Kish for 635 years. The god Lugal-banda is another hero of legend. He is here recorded to have reigned in Erech for 1,200 years.
It is Sin-gashid again who associates Ningul with Lugal-banda, and emphasizes his affection for the goddess by calling her his mother. In one inscription, moreover, Sin-gashid addresses himself exclusively to the goddess, who had an equal share in the temple at Uruk. Dumuzi-zu-aba.
The first element in his name signifies 'king, the second apparently 'strong, so that in this respect, too, the god comes close to Nergal, whose name likewise indicates 'great lord. The consort of Lugal-banda is Nin-gul. Her name signifies 'the destructive lady, an appropriate epithet for the consort of a solar deity.
Lastly, the absorption of one deity into another, is correlative either with the most perfect form of conquest, or the complete disappearance of the seat of his worship in consequence of the growing favor of one possessing sufficiently similar qualities to warrant identification with the other. Lugal-banda.
The identification of the two is already foreshadowed in an inscription of another member of the same dynasty, Sin-gamil, who places the name of Nergal exactly where his predecessor mentions Lugal-banda.
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