 He is described in the Sumerian language as a.za.lu.lu “lord of teeming creatures”, and in Akkadian as "Bēl-nammašti" “lord of wild animals” and features in much of the incantation texts against field pests, such as the Zu-buru-dabbeda.Although Ninkilim is feminine in the great god-list, and the Sumerian Farmer's Almanac – (which entreats the farmer to pray to Ninkilim, goddess of field mice, so that she will keep her sharp-toothed little subjects away from the growing grain), the field-pest incantations know him as masculine, as do other texts of the later periods.The 8th year of Iddin-Dagān celebrates his selection “by means of the omens (of) the high-priestess of Nin-kilim.” He was one of the patron deities, with the goddess Bēlit-ilī, of the city of Diniktum.