Ninurta
c. 2400 BCE – 100 CEattested
Nippur
- Mesopotamian
God of the plough and of war, in that order: a farming deity who becomes the state's champion. He kills the Anzû bird that stole the tablet of destinies and gets the destinies back.
Known for
- farmer and warrior at once
- recovering the tablet of destinies
- the mace that speaks
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.