Ba’u

   In Babylonian myth a goddess, wife of Ningirsu. The festival of their sacred marriage came at the end of the harvest, and ensured success for next year’s crops. She gave her name to the first month of the new year, beginning with the autumn equinox. From other calendars of the same period (3000 B.C. or earlier) it is known that the festival fell in the month of Tishrit. She may be the same as Baau.