Hanbi

Almost nothing is known about Hanbi except who his sons are, and this record does not pretend otherwise. He is the lord of the udug, the king of the demons, and the reason he is here at all is the inscription on the Louvre's Pazuzu statuette, where the demon introduces himself as 'son of Hanpa'. That single line is what converts two prose sentences in this pass — Pazuzu's parentage and Humbaba's — into actual parent links, which is why a figure this thin earns a record: he is the joint in the structure.

Children

• Humbaba
• Pazuzu

Domains

• underworld

Relations

• father of: PazuzuThe paternity is on the object itself, in Pazuzu's own voice — which is unusually direct evidence for a genealogy in this material.The Pazuzu statuette inscription naming the demon as 'son of Hanpa'. (archaeological)
• father of: HumbabaFather of Humbaba, on the first-millennium demonology that makes the Cedar Forest guardian Pazuzu's brother.Reference treatment of Pazuzu as brother of Humbaba and son of Hanbi. (secondary)

Sources

• Hanbi, also written Hanpa, is the Mesopotamian king of the demons and lord of the udug spirits, known almost entirely as the father of Pazuzu and Humbaba and named on Pazuzu's amulet inscriptions.: The bronze Pazuzu statuette MNB 467, Louvre, whose inscription names Hanpa as Pazuzu's father. (archaeological); Reference treatment of Hanbi and of the incantation texts that call him a king of demons. (secondary)