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<h2 id="attestations">Attestations</h2> <p>Ninti's name can be translated as "mistress who keeps alive" or "mistress (of) life".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> A variant form of her name might be Nintiḫal, "mistress who allocates life".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> However, Jeremiah Peterson notes that due to the existence of the divergent variant spelling Kurratiḫal it is not certain how the <a href="/facts/Cuneiform/MgIQoGu8">cuneiform</a> sign <a href="/facts/NIN_(cuneiform)/HoHd5qcG">NIN</a> should be read in this case.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p><p>Oldest attestations of Ninti have been identified in texts from <a href="/facts/Shuruppak/0NtXYzgQ">Fara</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> She is also attested in <a href="/facts/Early_Dynastic_Period_(Mesopotamia)/BcFtVWBQ">Early Dynastic</a> texts from <a href="/facts/Lagash/SQwkGota">Lagash</a>, and according to Gebhard Selz must have been worshipped in this city, as references to a <a href="/facts/%25C3%2589_(temple)/DjEzllLg">temple</a> dedicated to her are known.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> This conclusion has been subsequently accepted by other authors.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> She also appears in the <a href="/facts/Theophoric_name/zV6TsYFf">theophoric names</a> Ninti-badmu, "Ninti is my mother", and Ninti-men, "Ninti is the crown" or "Ninti has the crown".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> Further attestations, including theophoric names (for example Ur-Ninti), as well as entries in offering lists and god lists, are available from the <a href="/facts/Ur_III/rBJUxXah">Ur III</a> and <a href="/facts/Old_Babylonian_Empire/qAa4pT2M">Old Babylonian</a> periods.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> In the Old Babylonian god list from <a href="/facts/Mari%2c_Syria/qoSW361g">Mari</a>, Ninti appears in the proximity of <a href="/facts/Nindara/ncSucVWl">Nindara</a> and <a href="/facts/Ninmug/ed0MK2xS">Ninmug</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="associations-with-other-deities">Associations with other deities</h2> <p>A hymn to <a href="/facts/Ninkasi/4S7vBdlm">Ninkasi</a> states that while this goddess was raised by <a href="/facts/Ninhursag/wEYr09Xb">Ninhursag</a>, her parents were Ninti and <a href="/facts/Enki/4PySeAYJ">Enki</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> Ninti and Ninkasi occur near each other in a document from the <a href="/facts/Fara_period/BcFtVWBQ">Fara period</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> The relation between Ninti and Enki is also attested in the god-list <i><a href="/facts/An_%253D_Anum/sh9wTxu8">An = Anum</a></i>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> where she is equated with his spouse <a href="/facts/Damkina/wEYr09Xb">Damkina</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> The masculine equivalent of her name, Enti, is also given as an alternate name of Enki, though in other contexts <a href="/facts/Dingir/tnxdWARA">d</a><a href="/facts/EN_(cuneiform)/3KjzmT5d">EN</a>.<a href="/facts/TI_(cuneiform)/P1yE5ItG">TI</a> was instead a <a href="/facts/Logogram/wWYAITGc">logographic</a> representation of the name of <a href="/facts/Ebi%25E1%25B8%25AB/VpPVlzqs">Ebiḫ</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> a mountain god presumed to represent <a href="/facts/Hamrin_Mountains/EzFTk9bm">Hamrin Mountains</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> Ninti also occurs next to Enki in a <a href="/facts/Lexical_lists/X1EvUUbV">lexical list</a> referred to as <i>Silbenvokabular A</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> </p><p>Antoine Cavigneaux and Manfred Krebernik additionally suggest that the deity Nintiḫal might correspond to Ninti in the Nippur god list, and that under this name she was understood as the mother of <a href="/facts/Siris_(goddess)/5vzbb7Be">Siris</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> The list records the sequence Nintiḫal, Siris, Ninkasi.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a> Nintiḫal is also attested in relation to <a href="/facts/Nungal/mQK24eCm">Nungal</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> the goddess of prisons.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> She was regarded as the <i><a href="/facts/Udug/D2ws4sSq">udug</a></i> (in this context: "protective spirit") of her house.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> </p><p>Gebhard Selz stresses that Ninti should not be confused with <a href="/facts/Nintinugga/A96Fvcy5">Nintinugga</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> a healing-goddess from <a href="/facts/Nippur/0FPnbKa1">Nippur</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="mythology">Mythology</h2> <p>In the myth <i>Enki and Ninhursag</i>, Ninti appears as one of the eight deities created to relieve Enki of his pain, being specifically responsible for healing his ribs.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> The other deities created for the same purpose in this narrative include <a href="/facts/Abu_(god)/23UxjTKn">Abu</a>, Ninsikila (<a href="/facts/Meskilak/AmNzT6xe">Meskilak</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a>), Ningiriutud (<a href="/facts/Ningirida/BAg7Pv5q">Ningirida</a>), <a href="/facts/Ninkasi/4S7vBdlm">Ninkasi</a>, <a href="/facts/Nanshe/oFGqok3p">Nanshe</a>, <a href="/facts/Azimua/xVJMuk11">Azimua</a> and Ensag (<a href="/facts/Inzak/Dk9grKGE">Inzak</a>).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> In the end, when favorable destinies are proclaimed for all of them, Ninti is appointed to the position of the "lady of the month".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a> Her name is reinterpreted first as a <a href="/facts/Pun/97K1L3yE">pun</a> on <i>nin-ti</i>, "lady rib", and then <i>nin-iti</i>, "lady of the month", which according to Dina Katz reflects the fact that the compilers of the text selected her entirely based on her name's potential for wordplay and were "not interested in her religious background".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a> Jeremiah Peterson considers the reinterpretation of her name to be an example of a <a href="/facts/Folk_etymology/vgVL6xdX">folk etymology</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> </p> <h3>Bibliography</h3> <ul><li>Asher-Greve, Julia M.; Westenholz, Joan G. (2013). <a href="https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/135436/1/Asher-Greve_Westenholz_2013_Goddesses_in_Context.pdf"><i>Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources</i></a> (PDF). <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-7278-1738-0.</li> <li>Cavigneaux, Antoine; Krebernik, Manfred (1998), <a href="http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8980">"dNin-ti"</a>, <i>Reallexikon der Assyriologie</i> (in German), retrieved 2022-09-19</li> <li>Cavigneaux, Antoine; Krebernik, Manfred (1998a), <a href="http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8982">"dNin-ti-ḫal"</a>, <i>Reallexikon der Assyriologie</i> (in German), retrieved 2022-09-19</li> <li>Cavigneaux, Antoine; Krebernik, Manfred (1998b), <a href="http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#9174">"Nungal"</a>, <i>Reallexikon der Assyriologie</i> (in German), retrieved 2022-09-19</li> <li>Katz, Dina (2008). <a href="https://www.academia.edu/235216">"Enki and Ninhursaga, Part Two"</a>. <i>Bibliotheca Orientalis</i>. 65 (3). Peeters Publishers: 320–342. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.2143%2Fbior.65.3.2033365">10.2143/bior.65.3.2033365</a>. <a href="/facts/ISSN_(identifier)/DPAflDvU">ISSN</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0006-1913">0006-1913</a>.</li> <li>Krebernik, Manfred (1997), <a href="http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#7762">"Meskilak, Mesikila, Ninsikila"</a>, <i>Reallexikon der Assyriologie</i> (in German), retrieved 2022-09-26</li> <li>Krebernik, Manfred (1998), <a href="http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8769">"Nin-kasi und Siraš/Siris"</a>, <i>Reallexikon der Assyriologie</i> (in German), retrieved 2022-09-19</li> <li>Lambert, Wilfred G. (1983). <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4200181">"The God Aššur"</a>. <i>Iraq</i>. 45 (1). British Institute for the Study of Iraq: 82–86. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F4200181">10.2307/4200181</a>. <a href="/facts/ISSN_(identifier)/DPAflDvU">ISSN</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0021-0889">0021-0889</a>. <a href="/facts/JSTOR_(identifier)/YTeVmaJ7">JSTOR</a> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4200181">4200181</a>. Retrieved 2022-09-19.</li> <li>Peterson, Jeremiah (2009). <a href="https://www.academia.edu/27631505"><i>God lists from Old Babylonian Nippur in the University Museum, Philadelphia</i></a>. Münster: Ugarit Verlag. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-86835-019-7. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/460044951">460044951</a>.</li> <li>Selz, Gebhard (1995). <a href="https://www.academia.edu/1564636"><i>Untersuchungen zur Götterwelt des altsumerischen Stadtstaates von Lagaš</i></a> (in German). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-924171-00-0. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/33334960">33334960</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><i><a href="https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.4.23.1">Hymn to Ninkasi (Ninkasi A)</a></i> in the <a href="/facts/Electronic_Text_Corpus_of_Sumerian_Literature/XvECWwHY">Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature</a></li> <li><i><a href="https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.1.1">Enki and Ninhursag</a></i> in the ETCSL</li> <li><a href="http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/epsd2/o0047076">Ninti</a> in the <a href="/facts/Electronic_Pennsylvania_Sumerian_Dictionary/odMWAymB">Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Selz 1995, p. 266. - Selz, Gebhard (1995). Untersuchungen zur Götterwelt des altsumerischen Stadtstaates von Lagaš (in German). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. ISBN 978-0-924171-00-0. OCLC 33334960. <a href="https://www.academia.edu/1564636" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/1564636</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Selz 1995, p. 266. - Selz, Gebhard (1995). Untersuchungen zur Götterwelt des altsumerischen Stadtstaates von Lagaš (in German). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. ISBN 978-0-924171-00-0. OCLC 33334960. <a href="https://www.academia.edu/1564636" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/1564636</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Cavigneaux & Krebernik 1998a, p. 505. - Cavigneaux, Antoine; Krebernik, Manfred (1998a), "dNin-ti-ḫal", Reallexikon der Assyriologie (in German), retrieved 2022-09-19 <a href="http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8982" target="_blank">http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8982</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Peterson 2009, p. 57. - Peterson, Jeremiah (2009). God lists from Old Babylonian Nippur in the University Museum, Philadelphia. Münster: Ugarit Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86835-019-7. OCLC 460044951. <a href="https://www.academia.edu/27631505" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/27631505</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Selz 1995, p. 266. - Selz, Gebhard (1995). Untersuchungen zur Götterwelt des altsumerischen Stadtstaates von Lagaš (in German). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. ISBN 978-0-924171-00-0. OCLC 33334960. <a href="https://www.academia.edu/1564636" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/1564636</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Cavigneaux & Krebernik 1998, p. 504. - Cavigneaux, Antoine; Krebernik, Manfred (1998), "dNin-ti", Reallexikon der Assyriologie (in German), retrieved 2022-09-19 <a href="http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8980" target="_blank">http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8980</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Selz 1995, p. 266. - Selz, Gebhard (1995). Untersuchungen zur Götterwelt des altsumerischen Stadtstaates von Lagaš (in German). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. ISBN 978-0-924171-00-0. OCLC 33334960. <a href="https://www.academia.edu/1564636" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/1564636</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Cavigneaux & Krebernik 1998, p. 504. - Cavigneaux, Antoine; Krebernik, Manfred (1998), "dNin-ti", Reallexikon der Assyriologie (in German), retrieved 2022-09-19 <a href="http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8980" target="_blank">http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8980</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Selz 1995, p. 266. - Selz, Gebhard (1995). Untersuchungen zur Götterwelt des altsumerischen Stadtstaates von Lagaš (in German). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. ISBN 978-0-924171-00-0. OCLC 33334960. <a href="https://www.academia.edu/1564636" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/1564636</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Cavigneaux & Krebernik 1998, pp. 504–505. - Cavigneaux, Antoine; Krebernik, Manfred (1998), "dNin-ti", Reallexikon der Assyriologie (in German), retrieved 2022-09-19 <a href="http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8980" target="_blank">http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8980</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Peterson 2009, p. 66. - Peterson, Jeremiah (2009). God lists from Old Babylonian Nippur in the University Museum, Philadelphia. Münster: Ugarit Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86835-019-7. OCLC 460044951. <a href="https://www.academia.edu/27631505" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/27631505</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Asher-Greve & Westenholz 2013, p. 144. - Asher-Greve, Julia M.; Westenholz, Joan G. (2013). Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources (PDF). ISBN 978-3-7278-1738-0. <a href="https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/135436/1/Asher-Greve_Westenholz_2013_Goddesses_in_Context.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/135436/1/Asher-Greve_Westenholz_2013_Goddesses_in_Context.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Krebernik 1998, p. 443. - Krebernik, Manfred (1998), "Nin-kasi und Siraš/Siris", Reallexikon der Assyriologie (in German), retrieved 2022-09-19 <a href="http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8769" target="_blank">http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8769</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Katz 2008, p. 336. - Katz, Dina (2008). "Enki and Ninhursaga, Part Two". Bibliotheca Orientalis. 65 (3). Peeters Publishers: 320–342. doi:10.2143/bior.65.3.2033365. ISSN 0006-1913. <a href="https://www.academia.edu/235216" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/235216</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Cavigneaux & Krebernik 1998, p. 505. - Cavigneaux, Antoine; Krebernik, Manfred (1998), "dNin-ti", Reallexikon der Assyriologie (in German), retrieved 2022-09-19 <a href="http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8980" target="_blank">http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8980</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>Cavigneaux & Krebernik 1998, p. 505. - Cavigneaux, Antoine; Krebernik, Manfred (1998), "dNin-ti", Reallexikon der Assyriologie (in German), retrieved 2022-09-19 <a href="http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8980" target="_blank">http://publikationen.badw.de/en/rla/index#8980</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Lambert 1983, p. 84. - Lambert, Wilfred G. (1983). "The God Aššur". Iraq. 45 (1). 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