dingir

noun

1. Any Sumerian deity.

   “Whether we deal with the Indian Rishis or Pitris; with the Chinese Chim-nang and Tchan-gy—their “Divine Man” and Demi-gods; with the Akkadian Dingir and Mul-lil—the Creative God and the “Gods of the Ghost-world”; with the Egyptian Isis-Osiris and Thot; with the Hebrew Elohim; or again with Manco-Capac and his Peruvian progeny—the story varies nowhere.”

   “They believed that Nannar, the Dingir of the Moon, was moving it, and had put it there for them to count their time by, and they were grateful to him. They also believed that Ur was his special city, and that he looked after them and protected them from the dingirs of all the other cities that lay between the two rivers.”

   “So begins his bewildering journey through the land of the mountain Dingirs”

   “The first is Enlil the dingir of dingir, who rules over all from the holy city of Nippur. [...] And seventh is Inanna, the dingir of love and the guardian of the city of Uruk.”

   “They were far below the bottom-most landing stage and the Dingir were ascending fast.”

2. The cuneiform symbol 𒀭