There  seem  to  have  been  even  different  EN-LILs,  as  is  apparent
from  such  expressions  as  '**'«*' En-lil  En-lil-"-a*  "the  Nippurian
Enlil  or  B61"  in  contradistinction  to  another  Bil.  *'*■«*' Ba-u,  an-
other name*  for  ***'«*' Nin-lil,  the  wife  of  EN-LIL,  is  the  dumu  or
sometimes  also  the  dumu-sag  of  AN-NA,  i.  e.,  the  "child"  or
"firstborn  child"  of  AN-NA.*

What  was  the  name  of  the  father  of  EN-LIL?  The  old  Baby-
lonian inscriptions  do  not  give  an  answer  to  this  question,  but  from
Assyrian  inscriptions  we  know  that  B61  (the  Semitic  Babylonian
for  EN-LIL)  was  called  the  mar  r^shtii  sham6,  i.  e.,  "the  firstborn
child  of  heaven."  The  Assyrian  sham6  translates  the  Sumerian
AN  or  AN-NA,  hence  it  follows  also  EN-LIL  was  the  firstborn  of
AN.  This  is  important :  **"^'Ba  u  as  well  as  *""«*' En-lil  are  a  first-
born ;  both  are  brother  and  sister  but  at  the  same  time  husband  and
wife  !

(2)  The  children  of  EN-LIL.
(«)  The  god  ZU.
»  "The  wife  of  Enlil. "E.  B.  H.  p.  125,.
2  See  E.  B.  H.  Index,  gods.
^E.  B.  H.  p.  272  et  fassim.
^On  account  of  the  writing  "Ba-bi."see  the  proper  name  Ur-Ba-bi  and  the
E-Ba-bi  in  E.  B.  H.  pp.  237,  326,  and  365.  I  consider  **Ba-u"  to  be  a  Semitic
name.  In  later  inscriptions  occurs  also  the  writing  ^^^"^''Ba-bur.  Ba*bi  =  geni-
tive, and  Ba-bur  =  dative  (sic  !)  is  in  Sumerian  impossible.  Ba-bur  is  formed  in
Semitic  and  Sumerian  fashion,  as  the  r  (=raor  ru)  shows.  In  good  Somerian
the  postposition  "ra"  is  shortened  to  r  only  after  i  as  in  ni,  cp :  dingir-ra-ni-ir,
lugal-a-ni-ir  !    This  ^'"i^''  Ba-u  has  of  course  nothing  to  do  with  the  V)*3  in  Gen.  i.  2.
*  See  above,  p.  587,  4.  5.
