Nusku
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It may be added that in the Maqlû collection of incantation texts, Nin-gis-zida seems to be regarded as a goddess and the consort of Nusku, the fire-god.
From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
Ea's position, like that of Nusku, was too marked in the magical texts to encourage a conception of them entirely independent of their power to release victims from the grasp of the demons.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
Fire is also the instrument of the gods, and Nusku is particularly called the messenger of Bel because Bel is one of the highest gods.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
The two phases of the ideogram used in his name—the sceptre and the stylus—are thus united in the personage of Nusku precisely as in Nabu.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
The identifications in the earlier period of Babylonian astronomy appear to have been Ninurta-Mars and Nergal-Saturn.540.Probably the astronomical form of Nusku as god of the new moon, IV R. 23a 4.
From Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Langdon, Stephen
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