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132 and nicknamed "The Cow" (Fig. 36b) behind her back. So now that she was given her own domain, she decided to go there. Proudly she declared: "A Mistress I am now! Alone will I stay there, reigning forever!" Fig. 36 Unable to dissuade her, Ninurta applied his experience in damming and channeling waters to make his mother's new mountain region livable. We read of these deeds in Tablet IX of the "Feats and Exploits of Ninurta," as he addresses his mother: Since you, noble lady, alone to the Land of Landing had gone. Since to the Land of Casting Down unafraid you went— A dam I shall heap up for you, so that the Land may have a mistress. Completing his irrigation works, and bringing over people to perform the required tasks, Ninurta assured his mother that she would have an abundance of vegetation, wood products, and min- erals in her mountain abode: Its valleys shall be verdant with vegetation. Its slopes shall produce honey and wine for you. Shall produce . . . zabalum-trees and boxwood; its terraces shall be adorned with fruit as a garden; The Harsag shall provide you with the fragrance of the gods, shall provide you with the shiny lodes; THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN