Crossword-Solution: NINURTA 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The great mother divinity of Isin, although attached in a loose way to a male consort Ninurta, in that city retained, nevertheless, much of her ancient unattached character.

According to the catch line of tablet two of the Ninurta liturgy _gud-nim kurra_ the third tablet of that series began by the same melody as tablet three of the _elum didara_.(480) It is probable that the first melody of tablet three of both series was identical.

For the last passage on tablet three, the scribe borrows the first melody of the Ninurta series _gud-nim kurra_.(482) The litanies which begin these melodies or series of addresses to Ninurta differ greatly in the two redactions.

The commentary is probably intended to explain the hidden powers of the objects employed in the weird ritual, at any rate the mystery is thus explained.(511) (1) Gypsum is the god Ninurta.(512) (2) Pitch is _the asakku_-demon.(513) (3) Meal water (which encloses the bed of the sick man) is Lugalgirra and Meslamtaea.(514) [A string of wet meal was laid about the bed of a sick man or about any object to guard them against demons.

The identifications in the earlier period of Babylonian astronomy appear to have been Ninurta-Mars and Nergal-Saturn.