Ba-kad may, and Shumalia quite certainly does, belong to this class.

As for Shukamuna, the fact that Agumkakrimi, who places his title, 'king of Cassite land,' before that of Akkad and Babylon, opens his inscription with the declaration that he is the glorious offspring of Shukamuna, fixes the character of this god beyond all doubt; and Delitzsch has shown[199] that this god was regarded by the Babylonian schoolmen as the equivalent of their own Nergal.

Shukamuna, accordingly, was the Cassite god of war, who, like Nergal, symbolized the mid-day sun,--that is, the raging and destructive power.

Shumalia is the consort of Shukamuna[200], and is invoked as the 'lady of the shining mountains.' Nin-dim-su is a title of Ea, as the patron of arts.

Belit-ekalli--_i.e._, Belit of the palace--appears as the consort of Ninib, the epithet 'ekalli' being added to specify what Belit is meant, and to avoid confusion with the consort of Bel.