Crossword-Solution: NINLIL
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NINLIL | anagram | NILNIL |
We have 3 clues for the answer “NINLIL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| EMESH, mother of | 1 answer |
| ENLIL, wife of | 1 answer |
| ENTEN, mother of | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ORSADL
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with NINLIL (5)
Her supreme position as a goddess is attested by the relative insignificance of her husband Dunpae, whom she completely overshadows, in which respect she presents a contrast to the goddess Ninlil, Enlil's female counterpart.
The early clay figurines found at Nippur and on other sites, representing a goddess suckling a child and clasping one of her breasts, may well be regarded as representing Ninkharsagga and not Ninlil.
The second inscription, which is bilingual, has the expressions "the mother-father Enlil," "the mother-father Ninlil" (Sumerian), rendered in Semitic "the father-mother Enlil," "the father-mother Ninlil." These expressions probably signify not that the two deities are bisexual, but that each of them fulfills the guarding and nourishing functions of a father and a mother.
Therefore at Keš we have a reflection of the Innini-Tammuz cult or the worship of mother and son, mother goddess Ninlil or Ninharsag, and Igidu or Negun.(420) Keš and Opis must have been closely associated with both Erech and Šuruppak, and of traditional veneration in Sumer.
Now two other of the Nippur documents prove that Ibkushu, the _pashishu,_ or "anointing-priest" of the goddess Ninlil, was living at Nippur under Damik-ilishu and also under Hammurabi in the latter's thirty-first year.[19] This fact not only confirms our former inference, but gives very good grounds for believing that the close of Damik-ilishu's reign must have fallen within that of Rîm-Sin.