in case anyone is into old sumerian and pre-sumerian mythology, it always bothered be me that ninurta, son of enlil and ninlil/ningarsag/.., is nin, which is always female. it never sit well with me. on the other hand, there is plenty of speculation that gabriel was a female(some speculate it was ninlil/ningarsah/.. herself), yet gabri-el, is a he, due to the el(which even propagated through eons into the spanish el, among other terms).