Ninib
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This process, which reached its culmination in the post-Khammurabic period, led to identifying the planet Jupiter with Marduk, Venus with Ishtar, Mars with Nergal, Mercury with Nebo, and Saturn with Ninib.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
Nun-gal appears, therefore, to be the ideograph proper to a deity that symbolized, like Nergal, Ninib, and Â, some phase of the sun.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
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 Jastrow, Morris
The proof, however, that Ninib is Adar, is still wanting.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
But they are also at the service of other gods, notably of Bel, who is spoken of as their 'lord,' of Ninib, of Marduk, of Ishtar, and of Nergal.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
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