it is therefore difficult to interpret what theogonic tradition it reflects. A hymn to Enki might attribute his position as a god associated with water to a collective of Enki-Niki deities. A different composition dedicated to the same god might mentions two of them, Enul and Ninul, in a similar context. 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. A Middle Assyrian text, the so-called "Offering Bread Hemerology", prescribes offering bread to Lugaldukuga, Enki, Enmešarra and the West Wind on the 29th of Tašrītu, an autumn month. Offerings to the ancestors of Enlil are also mentioned in an administrative text from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II and in so-called Astrolabe B. The latter source specifically refers to a funerary offering made in Tašrītu, and lists Lugaldukuga alongside the pair Enki and Ninki as its recipient. This might have been a rite connected to the akītu festival. List of ancestors of Enlil Related deities Ancestors of Enlil could sometimes be mentioned alongside other, normally unrelated primordial figures. In An = Anum, Enšar and Ninšar occur among ancestors of Anu, and additionally another listed pair, Enuruulla and Ninuruulla, follows the en-nin pattern. In the so-called Gattung I, a compilation of exorcistic formulas, deities belonging to the lists of ancestors of Anu, namely the pair Enuruulla and Ninuruulla and Anshar and Kishar, occur among ancestors of Enlil instead. An Old Babylonian incantation also links a pair of ancestral deities usually connected to Anu, Dūri and Dāri, with Enlil. Dina Katz proposes that Ereshkigal might have developed from Ninki. She assumes that the former might have split from the latter at some point between the reign of Eannatum and Uruinimgina. In contrast with Ninki, Ereshkigal does not appear in Early Dynastic god lists. Andrew R. George has suggested that the portrayal of the ancestors of Enlil as no longer active figures dwelling in the underworld makes it possible to compare them to the so-called "Seven Conquered Enlils". This group of deities was associated with Enmešarra. According to Alfonso Archi, Mesopotamian primordial deities such as the ancestors of Enlil might have influenced similar groups in Hurrian mythology. Two of such Hurrian deities, Minki and Amunki, might be derived from Ninki and the Emesal form of Enki, Umunki. Wilfred G. Lambert has proposed that