The mace sharurThe sawThe ploughThe double lion maceThe anzu bird
Mythology Summary
Ninurta is the Sumerian and Akkadian god of war and of the plough, the son of Enlil and the hero of the gods. He recovers the Tablet of Destinies from the Anzu bird in the Anzu epic, and in the Sumerian Lugal-e he kills the mountain demon Asag and rearranges the landscape, with his speaking mace Sharur advising him. At Lagash he is Ningirsu, already in this grimoire, and in the late Babylonian astral theology his star is Saturn.
Modern Practice
Ninurta is worked by those who have to go and get back what was taken, and by those whose war is a real one; the plough is his as much as the mace, and the entry keeps both. The boasting in Lugal-e is part of the figure and is not smoothed out.