deity In lists of the sky god Anu's ancestors, Belili was typically paired with Alala, and together they occupy the final place in multiple documents enumerating such deities. This most likely indicates they could be regarded as Anu's parents. In the incantation series Udug Hul they appear in an enumeration of primeval deities: "Dūri, Dāri; Laḫmu, Laḫamu; Engur, Ningarra; Alāla; Bēlili." A single god list (K 4349) equates them with each other. According to Andrew R. George, this pair is also present in an unpublished hymn dedicated to the city of Borsippa. However, they were not associated with each other in other contexts, and according to Wilfred G. Lambert it is possible that they only came to be regarded as a couple because of both of their names being iterative. Worship Belili was commonly worshiped alongside Dumuzi. E-Arali (Sumerian: "house, netherworld"), a well known shrine dedicated to this god located in his cult center Bad-tibira, also occurs as a location dedicated to Belili in the Canonical Temple List. Another temple dedicated to both of them was the E-erra (Sumerian: "house of lament"), though its location is unknown. A temple dedicated to Belili, the Ekadimma, was located in Babylon. In a single administrative text it is paired with a sparsely attested temple of Shara for unknown reasons. Andrew R. George used its absence from the Canonical temple List to estimate the date of this document's composition as the second half of the Kassite period, since it postdates the foundation of Dur-Kurigalzu, but makes no mention of temples commonly listed in sources from Babylonia and Assyria from the late second and first millennium BCE, postdating the fall of the Kassite dynasty. Belili was also worshiped in Esagil complex, in this case sharing a cultic seat with Alala. Some temples dedicated to Belili alone are also known from the Canonical Temple List, but their locations are unknown. They include the E-TIN-na, possibly to be read as Ekurunna, "house of liquor," and the Euruku, "house, pure city." Mythology Belili is attested in a number of literary texts dealing with the death of Dumuzi. In Dumuzi's Dream, Dumuzi wants to hide in her house while being chased by demons. Belili agrees and offers him water, but later she has to leave, which lets the pursuers enter her house and take Dumuzi to the underworld. She is described as an old woman. Geshtinanna appears in the