Bau

The supplied temple-literary texts address Bau with genealogical language: she is called 'child of holy An' and is named in relation to a cultic house 'founded for you by An' (the E-tarsirsir). These lines place her within the high divine genealogy as presented in the hymnic/adab and tigi compositions cited, but the excerpts do not supply a fuller theogonic narrative or origin myth beyond those formulaic genealogical attestations.

No iconographic or anthropomorphic description of Bau is provided in the supplied excerpts. The texts use honorific epithets such as 'gracious woman' and 'adorned with attractiveness,' which function as cultic praise rather than as concrete physical description.

In the provided translations Bau is explicitly invoked as a divine adjudicator: 'you decide the fate of all the countries; you, my lady, render verdicts and decree judgments.' Other epithets in the hymns (e.g., 'imbued with great fearsomeness,' 'cherished lady of the gods,' 'Enlil's beloved one') are used in praise but do not supply additional specific functional powers in the supplied material.