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== Family == [[File:Fragment Bau Louvre AO4572.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Limestone bust of a goddess from [[Girsu]], possibly Ninurta's consort [[Bau (goddess)|Bau]], wearing a horned cap]] Ninurta was believed to be the son of Enlil.{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=142}} In ''[[Lugal-e]]'', his mother is identified as the goddess [[Ninmah]], whom he renames [[Ninhursag]],{{sfn|Holland|2009|page=117}} but, in ''Angim dimma'', his mother is instead the goddess [[Ninlil]].{{sfn|Penglase|1994|page=100}} Under the name ''Ninurta'', his wife is usually the goddess [[Gula (goddess)|Gula]],{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=142}} but, as Ninĝirsu, his wife is the goddess [[Bau (goddess)|Bau]].{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=142}} Gula was the goddess of healing and medicine{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=101}} and she was sometimes alternately said to be the wife of the god [[Pabilsaĝ]] or the minor vegetation god [[Abu (god)|Abu]].{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=101}} Bau was worshipped "almost exclusively in Lagash"{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=39}} and was sometimes alternately identified as the wife of the god [[Zababa]].{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=39}} She and Ninĝirsu were believed to have two sons: the gods Ig-alima and Šul-šagana.{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=39}} Bau also had seven daughters, but Ninĝirsu was not claimed to be their father.{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=39}} As the son of Enlil, Ninurta's siblings include: [[Sin (mythology)|Nanna]], [[Nergal]], [[Ninazu]],{{sfn|Jacobsen|1946|pages=128–152}}{{sfn|Kramer|1961|pages=44–45}} [[Enbilulu]],{{sfn|Black|Cunningham|Robson|2006|page=106}} and sometimes [[Inanna]].{{sfn|Black|Green|1992|page=108}}{{sfn|Leick|1998|page=88}}
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