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Updated: June 24, 2025
Ur-Bau expressly calls the god the 'king of Eridu. The sacredness of the place is attested by Gudea, who boasts of having made the temple of Nin-girsu as sacred as Eridu. It is over this city that Ea watches. The importance of the Persian Gulf to the growth of the city, would make it natural to place the seat of the god in the waters themselves.
In this temple, Gudea and other rulers place colossal statues of themselves, but temper the vanity implied, by inscribing on the front and back of these statues, an expression of their devotion to their god. To Nin-girsu, most of the objects found at Tell-loh are dedicated; conspicuous among which are the many clay cones, that became the conventional objects for votive offerings.
Nin-girsu is frequently termed the warrior of Bel, the one who in the service of the 'lord of the lower world, appears in the thick of the fight, to aid the subjects of Bel. In this rôle, he is identical with a solar deity who enjoys especial prominence among the warlike Assyrians, whose name is provisionally read Nin-ib, but whose real name may turn out to be Adar.
Not only, however, does Nin-girsu precede, but two other deities who are closely related in general character to the 'warrior deity' of Gudea's dominion. Then, the two great goddesses, Bau and Ninni, are introduced, and it is not until they are disposed of that the sun-god, together again with Pa-sag as a kind of lieutenant, is invoked.
It is again in the inscriptions of Gudea that we come across the first mention of this ship. This ruler tells us that he built the 'beloved ship' for Nin-girsu, and gave it the name Kar-nuna-ta-uddua, the ship of 'the one that rises up out of the dam of the deep. The ship of Nabu is of considerable size, and is fitted out with a captain and crew, has masts and compartments.
It is from him, that Gudea again declares his power to be derived, just as elsewhere he accords to Nin-girsu this distinction.
The worship at Nippur, however, remained most prominent. Nin-girsu. In the inscriptions of Gudea and of his time, the god most prominently mentioned is the "Lord of Girsu." Girsu itself, as the inscriptions show, is one of the four sections into which the capitol city of Lagash was divided.
who, originally a distinct solar deity, becomes scarcely distinguishable from Nin-girsu, and is eventually identified with the great Nin-ib.
With Ninib the solar deity coming into prominence as the god of war, all three names, Nin-girsu, Nin-gish-zida, and Nin-shakh, would be regarded by a later age as merely descriptive of one and the same god. Dun-shagga.
As a consequence, we find her in close association with Nin-girsu, the god of Girsu.
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