ID - 74848916 TI - The god Ninurta in the mythology and Royal ideology of ancient Mesopotamia. PY - 2002 VL - 14 SN - 9514590570 9789514590573 PB - Helsinki Neo-Assyrian text corpus project DB - UniCat KW - Ninurta KW - Akkadian language KW - Akkadien (Langue) KW - Assyrian gods KW - Dieux assyrien KW - Texts KW - Textes KW - Assyria KW - Assyrie KW - Religion. KW - Religion KW - Mythology, Sumerian KW - Sumerian literature KW - History KW - Sources KW - History and criticism KW - Iraq KW - Mythology, Sumerian - History - Sources KW - Sumerian literature - History and criticism KW - Iraq - History - To 634 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:74848916 AB - The current investigation has been divided into three main chapters. In the first two chapters, the primary focus is the relationship between Ninurta and kingship. The first chapter gives a diachronic overview of the cult of Ninurta during all historical periods of ancient Mesopotamia. This chapter shows that the conception of Ninurta’s identity with the king was present in Mesopotamian religion already in the third millennium BC. Ninurta was the god of Nippur, the religious centre of Sumerian cities, and his most important attribute was his sonship to Enlil. While the mortal gods were frequently called the sons of Enlil, the status of the king converged with that of Ninurta at his coronation, through the determination of the royal fate, carried out by the divine council of gods in Nippur. The fate of Ninurta parallels the fate of the king after the investiture. ER -