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>To confirm this theory there is even a city named Nimrod in Mesopotamia which is the seat of the temple of Ninurta, a city which never had a king and was ruled by the priests of Ninurta who kept their god as the symbolic king
>Ninurta was known for being a dragon and hence the son of a dragon, was syncretized with a snake god known as Tišpak and Ninazu who “is clearly the ‘lord of healing’ according to the etymology of his name.” Wiggermann notes that:
>"Ninazu, "Lord Healer", is a son of Ereshkigal is the "king of the snakes" in Old Babylonian incantations, and in several other ways related to death and the realm of the dead, perhaps at one time as its ruler. His dragon is the mušḫuššu."
>A snake is a frequent symbol of the healing gods. For religious-historical reasons, Ninurta became equated with the “Transtigridian snake god” as Tišpak, Ninazu and Elamite Inšušinak”– Amar Annus, The God Ninurta in the Mythology and Royal Ideology of Ancient Mesopotamia, State Archives of Assyria Studies, Volume XIV Helsinki 2002. Pg. 140.
>Not only was Ninurta syncretized with a snake god healer, but he was also associated with a legend about Kirtu, one of the Rephaim who were “'healers' or 'dispensers of fertility' of the earth.” Furthermore, according to DDDB, Kirtu has been associated with the Akkadian word “qarradu”, which DDDB notes is “generally regarded as a personal name.” This is significant because “Ninurta … has qardu 'fierce', 'heroic' and qarradu 'warrior', 'hero' among his standard epithets.”
>We saw earlier that the Rephaim were counted among the Amorites and Nephilim who were sometimes called gibborim. Looking at the Septuagint, the word Rephaim is sometimes simply transliterated (e.g. Gen 14:5, 15:20); though most of the time, it is translated as gigantes (giants)
>To confirm this theory there is even a city named Nimrod in Mesopotamia which is the seat of the temple of Ninurta, a city which never had a king and was ruled by the priests of Ninurta who kept their god as the symbolic king
>Ninurta was known for being a dragon and hence the son of a dragon, was syncretized with a snake god known as Tišpak and Ninazu who “is clearly the ‘lord of healing’ according to the etymology of his name.” Wiggermann notes that:
>"Ninazu, "Lord Healer", is a son of Ereshkigal is the "king of the snakes" in Old Babylonian incantations, and in several other ways related to death and the realm of the dead, perhaps at one time as its ruler. His dragon is the mušḫuššu."
>A snake is a frequent symbol of the healing gods. For religious-historical reasons, Ninurta became equated with the “Transtigridian snake god” as Tišpak, Ninazu and Elamite Inšušinak”– Amar Annus, The God Ninurta in the Mythology and Royal Ideology of Ancient Mesopotamia, State Archives of Assyria Studies, Volume XIV Helsinki 2002. Pg. 140.
>Not only was Ninurta syncretized with a snake god healer, but he was also associated with a legend about Kirtu, one of the Rephaim who were “'healers' or 'dispensers of fertility' of the earth.” Furthermore, according to DDDB, Kirtu has been associated with the Akkadian word “qarradu”, which DDDB notes is “generally regarded as a personal name.” This is significant because “Ninurta … has qardu 'fierce', 'heroic' and qarradu 'warrior', 'hero' among his standard epithets.”
>We saw earlier that the Rephaim were counted among the Amorites and Nephilim who were sometimes called gibborim. Looking at the Septuagint, the word Rephaim is sometimes simply transliterated (e.g. Gen 14:5, 15:20); though most of the time, it is translated as gigantes (giants)
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