Ninib
Americannoun
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The ferocious character of the 'swine' would naturally result in assigning to Nin-shakh warlike attributes; and as a matter of fact he is identified at times with Ninib.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
Ninib advances, the storm he makes to descend.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Frederick Carl Eiselen
The collection 81-7-1 contains some forty at least, comprising the accounts of the temple of Ninib, from the time of Ammiditana and Ammizaduga.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
The honors once paid to Ninib in Calah in this month could thus easily be transferred to the head of the Assyrian pantheon.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
Of these, Ninib and Nin-gishzida are solar deities.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
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