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Updated: June 29, 2025
We may perhaps gather the fact from Berosus' account of the Fish-God as an early object of veneration in that region, as well as from the Hamitic etymology of the name by which he was ordinarily known even in Assyria. There he was always one of the most important deities. It has been already mentioned that Nin was the son of Bel-Nimrod, and that Beltis was both his wife and his mother.
The ornamentation of that edifice indicated in a very striking way the reverence of the builder for this god, whose symbol, the winged bull, guarded all its main gateways, and who seems to have been actually represented by the figure strangling a lion, so conspicuous on the Hareem portal facing the great court. Nor did Sargon regard Nin as his protector only in peace.
The snow having now melted, she had completely lost her husband's track, and she wandered about uncertain which way to go and in a state of perfect despair. At length with bitter cries she lamented her fate. "Moowis, Moowis," she cried, "nin ge won e win ig, ne won e win ig!" "Moowis, Moowis, you have led me astray, you are leading me astray!" With this cry she wandered in the woods.
She hummed softly a song of the Ojibway language: "Mong-o doog-win Nin dinaindoon " "Loon's wing I thought it was In the distance shining. But it was my lover's paddle In the distance shining." Then she looked up and saw him. "Little Father!" she cried, pleased. At the same moment Dick caught sight of the new-comer and hobbled out of the wigwam. "Hello, you old snoozer!" he shouted.
Some of these temples were very ancient, those at Warka and Niffer being built by Urukh, while that at Mugheir was either built or repaired by Ismi-dagon. According to one record, Beltis was a daughter of Ana. It was especially as "Queen of Nipur" that she was the wife of her son Nin. Perhaps this idea grew up out of the fact that at Nipur the two were associated together in a common worship.
Sometimes the relationship alleged is confused, and even contradictory, as in the case of Nin or Ninip, who is at one time the son, at another the father of Bel, and who is at once the son and the husband of Beltis. It is evident that the genealogical aspect is not that upon which much stress is intended to be laid, or which is looked upon as having much reality.
It is uncertain, however, whether the former of these figures is not one of the many different representations of Nin, the Assyrian Hercules; and, should that prove the true explanation in the one case, no very great confidence could be felt in the suggested identification in the other. Gula, the Sum-goddess, does not occupy a very high position among the deities of Assyria.
These relationships are well established, since they are repeatedly asserted. One tablet, however, inverts the genealogy, and makes Bel-Nimrod the son of Nin, instead of his father. The contradiction perhaps springs from the double character of this divinity, who, as Saturn, is the father, but, as Hercules, the son of Jupiter.
This monument, which is covered on three sides with an inscription in the hieratic or cursive character, contains an opening invocation to Nin or Hercules, conceived in the ordinary terms, the genealogy and titles of the king, an account of the rebellion of Asshur-bani-pal, together with its suppression, and Shamas-Vul's own annals for the first four years of his reign.
the element Nin, as has several times been mentioned, points to an ideographic form. The second element signifies 'wild boar, and from other sources we know that this animal was a sacred one in Babylonia, as among other Semitic nations.
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