For example, in Lagash the patron deity was Ningirsu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transforming Civilization: Gods, God, Emergence, and Transcendence.] Reference

Thereupon Ningirsu did not communicate his orders directly to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition] Reference

That this is sound reasoning is proved by a second vision vouchsafed to Gudea by Ningirsu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition] Reference

Ningirsu and Gatumdug; and then, repairing to Ninâ's temple, he recounted to her the details of his vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition] Reference

So the fact that Ningirsu does not communicate directly with the patesi, but conveys his message by means of a dream, is particularly instructive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition] Reference

The sign was that he should feel his side touched as by a flame, (1) and thereby he should know that he was the man chosen by Ningirsu to carry out his commands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition] Reference

Gudea built-or rather rebuilt-at least fifteen temples in the city-state of Lagash, but on none of them was he so lavish as on the E-ninnu, the temple of Ningirsu, the city-god of Girsu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Québécois Libre] Reference

The oppressive conditions in the city before the reforms is described in the new code preserved in cuneiform on tablets of the period: "From the borders of Ningirsu to the sea, there was the tax collector.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Québécois Libre] Reference

As the consort of Ningirsu, she is identified with the goddess Gula, the name more commonly applied to the 'princely mistress' of Nin-ib, whose worship continues down to the days of the neo-Babylonian monarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference

In order to maintain the large household represented by such an organization as that of the temple of Enlil of Nippur, that of Ningirsu at Lagash, that of Marduk at Babylon, or that of Shamash at Sippar, large holdings of land were required which, cultivated by agents for the priests, or farmed out with stipulations for a goodly share of the produce, secured an income for the maintenance of the temple officials.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition] Reference

Gudea's ship for Ningirsu, 654.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference

Ninazu, Nindukugga, Ninedinna, Ningal, Ningirsu, Nin-gishzida, Ningizzida, Ningyo, Ninhursag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference