#innana

Ninšubur is a Diĝir who is both male and female.

"The name of two Sumerian deities, one female and the other male. According to Wiggermann, when the earliest sources from the third millennium BCE indicate the sex of Nin-šubur, they all treat her as female, for instance, calling her "Mother." Later Akkadian documents consider Nin-šubur as male. Even in bilingual writings, when the Sumerian deity was clearly female, the translation into Akkadian presented her as male. Around the end of the third millennium, the two existed side by side (Wiggermann, RIA IX: 491). The sex-gender difficulty resulted in at least one cultic attempt to resolve it by presenting Nin-šubur clothed as a male on the right side and as a female on the left." — A Handbook of Gods and Gods of the Ancient Near by Frayne pg 273

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"Early texts of King Rim-Sin addressed the deity as female, but in later ones he was male. Nonetheless, popular religion, much of which would have retained early Sumerian traditions, probably continued to understand Nin-subur as female. In literary material, female Nin-subur generally served the goddess Inana and male Nin-subur the god An." — A Handbook of Gods and Gods of the Ancient Near by Frayne pg 273

I wanted a way to different who I am referring to, even if they are the same Diĝir.

So I decided to simply label them as male and female as epithets.

Using Sumerian Dictionary (ePSD2) & Electronic of Sumerian Epithets (EDSDE) I tried to find a useful modern epithets.

Using the ePSD2 I found "ĝuruš" (alt spelling ŋuruš; ŋ = ĝ, apparently) for male, link. And "munus" for female, link.

I then checked to see if these were ever epithets to divine names.

ŋuruš (ĝuruš) is divine epithet for Dumuzid, Enlil, Ninĝešzida, and Damu. Link

munus is a divine epithet for Inana, Ninlil, Nisaba, Ningal, Ninmaḫ. Link

Therefore I decided the following

Ninšubur-ĝuruš = masculine Ninšubur, sukkal of An

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Ninšhbur-munus = feminine Ninšubur, sukkal of Inana