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: Pazuzu
• father of: Humbaba

Sources

• The bronze Pazuzu statuette MNB 467, Louvre, whose inscription names Hanpa as Pazuzu's father.
• Reference treatment of Hanbi and of the incantation texts that call him a king of demons.