Editing Ninhursag (section)

==Worship==
Theories posit that, in earlier times, Ninhursag was the highest ranking female deity, but was later displaced from that status by Ninlil, before the Old Babylonian period where she was syncretized with other birthing goddesses.{{sfn|Asher-Greve|Westenholz|2013|p=138}}

As Ninhursaga, she had temples in [[Nippur]] (Ur III period), and Mari.{{sfn|Asher-Greve|Westenholz|2013|p=151}} In Adab, she was worshipped under her Diĝirmaḫ epithet. Under her Ninmah epithet, she had temples in Adab, Babylon, and  Ĝirsu, known as 'E-maḫ' or the 'majestic house'.{{sfn|Asher-Greve|Westenholz|2013|p=151}}

A temple of hers from [[Ur]]'s [[Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia) ]] was excavated by [[Sir Leonard Woolley]]{{sfn | Woolley | 1982 | p=106}}{{sfn|Asher-Greve|Westenholz|2013|p=151}} during his series of excavations at various sites around the city, built presumably by a King [[A'annepada]], as per the temple dedication: "Aanepada King of Ur, son of Mesanepada King of Ur, has built this for his lady Ninkhursag."{{sfn | Woolley | 1982 | p=106}} In Early Dynastic Lagash, a temple was dedicated to Ninhursag, then later to Ninmaḫ.{{sfn|Asher-Greve|Westenholz|2013|p=59}}

An inscribed door socket was found at an unexcavated mound on the [[ʿAdhaim|Adaim]] river near where it meets the Tigris river, Khara'ib Ghdairife. It read "Manistusu, king of Kis, builder of the temple of the goddess Ninhursaga in HA.A KI. Whoever removes this tablet, may Ninhursaga and Samas uproot his seed and destroy his progeny."<ref>Al-Rawi, F. N. H., and J. A. Black, "A Rediscovered Akkadian City", Iraq, vol. 55, pp. 147–48, 1993</ref>