With the same significance the deity is addressed in the following couplet:

Mother womb begetter of all things

Who has taken up his exalted habitation among living creatures.

—Hymn to Sin No. 5.

Religious meaning is put into the term in the following two examples:

O merciful gracious father,

Who hath taken into his care the life of the whole world.

—Hymn to Sin No. 5.

Thou art lord, as Father and mother [among men] art thou.

—Hymn to Marduk No. 9.