Gods of the...
Younger generation

Red = SUMERIAN name
Blue = ACADIAN name
Green = BABYLONIAN name

These Gods are the children of the Primary Gods and can be grouped as follows :

A. The Seven who decreed Fate
B. The Sebitti
C. The other Gods
D. Demi-Gods, Monsters and Demons

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A. The Seven Who Decreed Fate

A group of seven "decreed the fates" - these probably included:
Ningirsu (Ninurta)
Ishkur (Adad)
Bel (Marduk)
Gibil (Gerra)
as well as Nanna (Sin)
his son Utu (Shamash)
the sun god and a god of justice
and Nanna's daughter Inanna (Ishtar)
Next in importance to the creating deities were the three sky deities, Nanna, the god of the moon; Utu, the sun god; and Inanna (who later became Ishtar), the queen of heaven and the goddess of love, procreation, and war.

A god of great importance was Ninurta, the deity in charge of the violent and destructive south wind.

Nana (Sin), Utu and Hadad (Ishkur, Adad), all Gods of the younger generation, makes up the second triad of Mesopotamian gods.

They all lived in "Euriminianki", or "House of the Seven Spheres of Heaven and Earth".

Ningirsu - Ninurta - Ninurta
The God Yahweh, YHWH of the Jews

The foremost son of Enlil, He was born in E-kur, Enlil's temple in Nippur. His wife is Baba/Gula.

Ninurta is chamberlain of the Great Anunnaki.

Nissaba performs a purification ceremony on him and he receives the following new names and shrines:
Duku - 'holy mound' in Sumerian, Hurabtil - an Elamite god, Shushinak - patron god of the Elamite city Susa, Lord of the Secret, Pabilsag - god of the antediluvian city Larak, Nin-Azu - god of Eshunna, Ishtaran - god of Der, Zababa -warrior god of Kish, Lugalbanda - Gilgamesh's father, Lugal-Marada - patron god of Marad, Warrior Tishpak - similar to Nin-Azu, Warrior of Uruk, Lord of the Boundary-Arrow, Panigara - a warrior god, and Papsukkal - vizier of the great gods.
The city of Nippur was the centre of his cult. He was the patron deity of the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (Lagash) where king Gudea (c.2141-2122 BCE) built a temple for him called the E-ninnu (see chapter 11 about the Sumerian King list).

He is the Sumerian-Babylonian god of rain, fertility, war, thunderstorms, wells, canals, floods, the plough and the South Wind.

Ninurta the God of Thunder and Lightning and the South Wind. (1)

(1) Thunder and Lightning and Wind?, isn't it the same story as in the Bible during the stay of the Jews in the Sinai dessert.

We can read in the Bible :
Exodus 14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Exodus 20:18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
According to one poem, Ninurta's exploits, he once dammed up the bitter waters of the underworld and conquered various monsters. (2)

(2) Bitter waters? isn't it the same story as in the Bible during the stay of the Jews in the Sinai dessert.

We can read in the Bible :
Exodus 15:22-27 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them.

And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.
His name means "lord of the earth" (Girsu) and mankind owed to him the fertile fields and the healthy live-stock, his symbol is the lion-headed eagle. (3)

(3) A lion headed eagle?, isn't it the same story as in the Bible during the stay of the Jews in the Sinai dessert.

We can read in the Bible :
Exodus 25:18-20 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.

And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
When the Tablets of Destiny were stolen by the storm-bird Zu he managed to retrieve them.

Ki, at Enki's advice, instructed him to kill Anzu. Initially his assault was futile, but Sharur relayed advise from Enki to him, which, when it was carried out allowed him to slay Anzu in a great onslaught. He recovered the Tablets of Destinies for Enlil.

Tablets of Destinies?, isn't it the same story as in the Bible during the stay of the Jews in the Sinai dessert.

We can read in the Bible :
Exodus 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
As a reward Nissaba performs a purification ceremony on him and he receives the following new names and shrines:
Duku - 'holy mound' in Sumerian (4), Hurabtil - an Elamite god, Shushinak - patron god of the Elamite city Susa, Lord of the Secret, Pabilsag - god of the antediluvian city Larak, Nin-Azu - god of Eshunna, Ishtaran - god of Der, Zababa -warrior god of Kish, Lugal-Marada - patron god of Marad, Warrior Tishpak - similar to Nin-Azu, Warrior of Uruk, Lord of the Boundary-Arrow, Panigara - a warrior god, and Papsukkal - vizier of the great gods.
(4) Holy mound?, isn't it the same story as in the Bible during the stay of the Jews in the Sinai dessert.

We can read in the Bible :
Exodus 19:1-4 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

Notes:

That Yahweh was originally a son of El (Enlil) is attested by a document (KTU 1.1 IV 14) from Ugarit, a Palestinian site occupied by neighbors of Israel.

It reads sm . bny . yw . ilt, which translates as "The name of the son of god, Yahweh." This status as the foremost of the sons of El is remembered in the Song of Moses.

Ninurta was indeed the foremost Son of Enlil.

in the Bible we can read :
Dt:32:7: Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Dt:32:8: When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Dt:32:9: For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

"When the Ely-on (another name of El) apportioned the nations, when he divided humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the gods (i.e., each god controlled one nation of people); Yahweh's own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share."
Yahweh ruled as the king of the other children of El. In this role, he presided whenever the Assembly of the Gods whenever they met in council. The pre-eminence of Yahweh over the other gods is repeatedly asserted in Psalms.

in the Bible we can read :
Ps:86:8: Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.

"There is none like you among the gods, O Yahweh"

Psalm 89 is even more specific in explaining that the "gods" in question are the sons of El who met at the Assembly of the Gods:
Ps:89:5: And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
Ps:89:6: For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?
Ps:89:7: God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

"The heavens praise your wonders, O Yahweh, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones. For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of gods is like Yahweh? a God feared in the council of the holy ones, great and awesome above all that are around him"
The conclusion should be that the God of the Bible is not the leader God's but only "one of the Gods" Even in the Bible (from Jewish translation) we can find prove that Ninurta and Yahweh are the same God because later on is written in the Bible :
And God said to Moses "I am that I am" Exodus 3:14

Ex:3:14: And God said unto Moses," I AM THAT I AM": and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
God first announced his identity to Moses not in Exodus 3. He made sure that Moses tell the Israelites that he is called I AM. In Hebrew if I am not wrong that is spoken as ezeer (sic). If Yahweh wanted to be anonymous, why not shout at Moses and say just tell them I am God! Or tell Moses that God is omnipotent, he hasn't got a name. Instead he told Moses twice that his name is I AM.

There must be a better translation. Can the word in Hebrew according to one author be Ningirsu.
In Exodus 6:3, Yahweh said he did not reveal his holy name to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They called him God Almighty, to Moses; Yahweh called himself the Lord.
Ex:6:2: And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord:
Ex:6:3: And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH (Yahweh) was I not known to them.
So God has been going by three names from Adam to Moses.

There can only be one explanation why Ninurta refused to tell his "real" name to Moses. .

He was a short tempered God, even as his father El, as we can clearly read in Exodus and he new that he was not the same God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So he told Moses with other words not to interfere with His business.

The reason that he refused to give his name was that he new that he would be punished by his father El (Enlil).

A clear example is given in the Bible :
Exodus 34:14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
In Joshua 2: we can read that Ninurta is angry to Israel because of the bow for Ba-al (Adad, Ishkur) :
Jgs:2:13: And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
Jgs:2:14: And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Ninurta (the God of Thunder and Lightning), the foremost son of Enlil, is the same God as mentioned in the Bible "YAHWEH", YHWH (Jehovah, I am that I am) during the lifetime of Moses until the time of King Solomon in the Bible, the God who instructed Moses to leave Egypt, the God who appeared to Moses on Mount Sinai and the God of the "Ten Commandments".

He was, even as his father Enlil, a short tempered God with a variably mood.

Nanna - Suen - Sin
The son of Enlil and Ninlil

He is the "product" of Enlil's rape of Ninlil.

Nanna was married to Ningal and they produced Inanna and Utu (Shamash).

The Sumerian moon-god, called 'Lord of Destiny'. He has a beard of Lapis Lazuli and rides a winged bull. Nanna was the tutelary deity of Ur, appointed as king of that city by Anu and Enlil.

He is lord of the calendar, fixing the seasons, and also a vegetation-deity and patron of fertility. With Utu and Hadad (Ishkur, Adad) he makes up the second triad of Mesopotamian gods. (from about 1,580 BCE, see chapter 12)

He established Ur-Nammu as his mortal representative, establishing the third Ur dynasty (see The Sumerian King List). (1)

(1) The High priest of Ur-Nammu, king of Ur, was Therah, the father of Abraham, so the God of Therah was Sin (the Moon God). Later Abraham was forced to leave his family in Haran by El (Enlil) to go to Canaan in the west.---

He rests in the Underworld every month, and there decrees the fate of the dead. He averts a flood of his city by visiting Enlil in Nippur on a boat loaded with gifts and pleading with him. He refuses to send aid to Inanna when she is trapped in the underworld. He does not answer Gilgamesh's plea to restore Enkidu to life.

Nanna's cult center was in Ur, as was the residence of his high priestesses.

Utu - Shamash - Shamash
The son of Nanna and Ningal

The god of the Sun and of Justice, Utu goes to the underworld at the end of every day and while there decrees the fate of the dead.

When Inanna's huluppu tree is infested with unwelcome guests, he ignores her appeal for aid. He aided Dumuzi in his flight from the Galla demons by helping him to transform into different creatures.

He opened the "ablal" of the Underworld for Enkidu, to allow him to escape, at the behest of Enki. Through Enki's orders, he also brings water up from the earth in order to irrigate Dilmun, (1) the garden paradise, the place where the sun rises.

He is in charge of the "Land of the Living" and, in sympathy for Gilgamesh, calls off the seven weather heroes who defend that land.

(1) He brings UP water from the Earth to Dilmun ?, Dilmun was thus situated on a mountain top but more probably Dilmun was situated in the our solar system, another planet, Mars ?.

He rises from the mountains with rays out of his shoulders. He enters and exits the underworld through a set of gates in the mountain, guarded by scorpion-people. He travels both on foot and in a chariot, pulled by fiery mules. He upholds truth, and justice. He is a lawgiver and informs oracles.

Nergal is a corrupt aspect of his nature. He loves Gilgamesh, hates evil and instigates Gilgamesh's quest against Humbaba, guiding him and receiving prayers from him along the way. He tries to intercede to Enlil on Enkidu's behalf, but is unsuccessful.

He rebukes Enkidu for cursing the Stalker and the temple prostitute for bringing him out of the wild. In Kish, the eagle and the serpent swore an oath to him that they would not overstep his limits.

The eagle broke the oat