Ninšubur
Ninšubur , NiNinšubura ( d NIN.ŠUBUR Sumerian Uruinimgina ) was the divine doorman in Babylonia . The name means "Lord / Mistress of the East". His temple Elgizuru was in Akkil . The gender of this deity is not clear. In the company of female deities she is a woman, in the company of male deities she is a man; it was not until the Babylonian period that sex was defined as male. The divine bouncer is no longer called Ninšubur, but Papsukkal.
Since the Kassite period, Papsukkal was promoted from doorman to vizier of the gods and was now considered a messenger of the gods. His daughter was Ningandu , who was responsible for the door lintel.
literature
- Claus Ambos: Mesopotamian building rituals from the 1st millennium BC Chr. ISLET, Dresden 2004, ISBN 3-9808466-2-8 .
- Åke W. Sjöberg; SJ Bergmann, The Collection of the Sumerian Temple Hymns. Texts from cuneiform sources 3. Locust Valley, JJ Augustin 1969.