At a festival in the city, the steppe god Martu won Adgar-kidug's hand despite her companions' horror at his barbaric ways — he ate raw meat, lived without a house, and would go unburied — but she chose him all the same.
Martu, the god of the western steppe, is named as a son of Anu in Sumerian god-lists, a divine wild man of the desert whom the city-dwelling gods regarded with bemused contempt.
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