NINSHUBUR

Messenger god(dess). Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Babylonian-Akkadian). The servant of the goddess Inanna, she is particularly prominent in the legend of Inanna's Descent and the Death of Dumuzi. In Akkadian texts the sex changes to a male personality, the minister of Anu.

Taken from Encyclopedia of Gods: Over 2,500 Deities of the World, Copyright 1993, Michael Jordan,

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