“On February 2, 1998, we went to the hospital because Ashur had a fever and a cough,” she says.
That could be a death sentence for Saltani: she herself contracted HIV from breastfeeding Ashur.
It would appear that Ashur was sometimes worshipped in the temples of other gods.
Next to Ashur, or rather by the side of Ashur, Ishtar was invoked as the great goddess of battle and war.
Ashur, who permits the king to grow old, and protects the troops.
Nay, the rulers go further and declare themselves to be the offspring of Ashur.
The national god was Ashur, who was symbolized by a winged disk, an adaptation of the Egyptian winged disk of Horus.
