With his sometimes enemy, Enlil, and his brother, Anu, he formed the Mesopotamian triad of gods.  
He was always to be found with his two-faced bird minister Anzu and his wife Damkina.  A son of Ansar and Kisar, he dwelt in Eridu, the "the realm of depth."  This god helped man by slaying Apsu and revealing, to Utnapishtim, the plot to kill mankind by a flood.  With his sometimes enemy, Enlil, and his brother, Anu, he formed the Mesopotamian triad of gods.  FTP, name this father of Marduk and Sumerian god of water.
He was always to be found with his two-faced bird minister Anzu and his wife Damkina.  
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