XI, line 99) during the description of the flood. It is possible that they can be identified with the throne bearers (guzalû) of Adad mentioned in the same passage, but Daniel Schwemer argues that due to lack of other evidence this is uncertain. Andrew R. George assumes that both passages refer to this pair and suggests that as Adad's vanguard they might be the personification of the gale. They are mentioned in Atrahasis as well, where they similarly partake in destruction leading to the flood, alongside Errakal and Ninurta. An Old Babylonian copy of the myth of Adapa from Tell Haddad mentions Shullat and Hanish. The passage is broken, but Sara J. Milstein notes that the tablet appears to contain an account of multiplication of mankind after a flood and presumably Adapa's introduction. In the so-called "Cuthean Legend of Naram-Sin," Shullat and Hanish are mentioned alongside Ishtar, Zababa, Ilaba, Annunitum and Shamash as the deities the eponymous king asks for advice by performing extispicy. In another legend, it is stated that Sargon at one point swore an oath of brotherhood between himself and Kish by a similar group of deities. In the Epic of Erra, an area of destroyed vegetation is compared to "woodland over which Hanish had passed." References Bibliography Mesopotamian gods Sky and weather gods Divine twins