Ninurta

And their father was king, their counselor warrior Enlil.

Their chamberlain was Ninurta, their canal controller Enug.

They took the box of lots and cast the lots.

The gods made the division and went up to the sky.

And Lil made his voice heard and spoke to the vizier, Nescu.

Nescu, open your door, take up your weapons, and stand before me in the assembly of the gods.

Bow, then stand and tell them, your father, An, your council warrior, and Lil, and your chamberlain, Ninurta, and your canal controller, Enugi, have sent me to say, who is in charge of this rabble? Who is in charge of this fighting? Who declared war? Who ran to the door of Enlil? Nusku opened his door and took up his weapons, went before Enlil.

In all the assembly of gods, he bowed.

They belong to the world of hunting, of warfare, of catastrophic decisions after too much wine.

Satyrs had the legs of a goat and belonged to the world of forests, music, and the god Pan.

Over the centuries, artists quietly swapped the goat legs for horse legs.

An archer with horse legs looked more dramatic.

The confusion has been with us ever since.

But behind the constellation stands Crotus.

His father was Pan, god of wild places, unsuspecting travelers, and general chaos.

His upbringing, however, was the opposite.

Sin, Shamash, and Kamman, who presided respectively over the moon, the sun, and the air, were all three of equal rank.

Next came the lords of the planets, Ninib, Merodach, Nergal, the warrior goddess Ishtar, and Nebo.

Then a whole army of lesser deities, who ranged themselves around Anu as a supreme master.

Tiamat, finding her domain becoming more and more restricted owing to the activity of the others, desired to raise battalion against battalion, and set herself to create unceasingly.

Nebo and Marduk ran before it, ran like two throne-bearers over hill and dale.

Neru the great tore up the stake to which the ark was moored.

Ninib came up quickly.

He began the attack.

Then you have references to corpses being eaten by birds.

Eser Hadon's treaty says, May Ninurta cast your corpse down so that your flesh will feed the eagles and the vultures.

Deuteronomy says, Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth, with no one to frighten them away.

Then there's also talk about blindness and groping in the dark, where the victim, a person who didn't keep the covenant, of course, is helpless.