Cult of Gods

Ninurta

Mesopotamian tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
war, farming, storms
Parents (per the sources used)
Enlil
A chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.
A chaos monster and a sun god, drawn by L. Gruner for A. H. Layard's Monuments of Nineveh.

Key myth

Warrior of Nippur, hero of the myth 'Lugale', in which he defeats the monster Asag. In the Babylonian creation story, some of the same deeds are attributed to Marduk.

Primary sources

  • Lugale (Ninurta myth)

All sources for the Mesopotamian pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: Enlil, An / Anu.

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

NammuApsuTiamatAn / AnuNinhursagEnlilNinlilEnki / EaNinurtaNanna / SinNergalEreshkigalMardukUtu / ShamashInanna / IshtarDumuzi / Tammuz

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.NorsePapyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.EgyptianVishvarupa Vishnu, Kashmir or Himachal, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection.HinduFolio 309r of the Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin), c. 800.Celtic (Irish)

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Ninurta: war and fighting, earth, harvest and fertility. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Odin

wisdom, poetry, war

Norse

Thor

thunder, protection of gods and people, strength

Norse

Sif

golden hair, grain (by later reading)

Norse

Freyr

peace, fertility, sunshine

Norse

Freyja

love, desire, magic (seiðr)

Norse

Týr

law, oaths, war

Egyptian

Geb

earth

Egyptian

Osiris

afterlife, resurrection, fertility of the flood

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