References to male Mamu are also known, though it has been proposed that they only represent a late change of gender attested for a number of other originally female deities as well.
[8] It has been suggested that the connection between the sun god and dream deities was based on his well attested role in divination.
[10] In the earlier Weidner god list, Mamu appears alongside Utu and Aya but without the relation being specified.
[12] In the myth Enki and Ninmah, she appears as one of the seven helpers of the eponymous goddess, the other six being Ninimma, Shuzianna, Ninmada, Ninšar, Ninmug and Ninniginna.
[15] For example, Iltani, daughter of Sin-Muballit, offered mirsu cakes to both of them twice in the twenty first year of Hammurabi's reign.
[1] A sanctuary dedicated to Mamu was built by the Assyrian king Assurnasirpal II in Imgur-Enlil (modern Balawat) next to the royal palace,[21] but according to Wilfred G. Lambert, in this location the deity was viewed as male.