Belili
Belili is a primordial deity belonging to the family tree of Anu. A prayer to Shamash and the “gods of the night” invokes Enki and Ninki alongside Alala and Belili, a pair of primordial deities belonging to the family tree of Anu.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – -1
- Historical notes
- A prayer to Shamash and the “gods of the night” invokes Enki and Ninki alongside Alala and Belili, a pair of primordial deities belonging to the family tree of Anu.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ninki, Enul, Ninul, Geshtinanna, Geshtindudu, Lugaldukuga, Enmesharra, Kubabat, Enki, Enlil
- consort of
- Alala
- parent of
- Anu
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Gonzalo Rubio additionally states that Kubaba's name has no clear Sumerian etymology either, and due to this theonym's structure compares it to names such as Alala, Aruru, Belili or Zababa.”
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“A prayer to Shamash and the “gods of the night” invokes Enki and Ninki alongside Alala and Belili, a pair of primordial deities belonging to the family tree of Anu.”
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“While with the help of Utu and Belili Dumuzi manages to escape them for a time, they eventually catch him when he returns to Geshtinanna's sheepfold.”
#36996 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The pairs of ancestral gods appearing in various configurations in such lists include Duri and Dari, Lahmu and Lahamu, Anshar and Kishar, Enurulla and Ninurulla, Engur and Gara, and Alala and Belili. Frans Wiggermann proposes that this tradition had its origin in northern Mesopotamia.”
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