While myths the role of Ḫepat's attendant belongs to Takitu, in some ritual texts it instead belongs to Tiyabenti, a deity whose gender is unclear according to Gary Beckman, but identified as a goddess by Marie-Claude Trémouille. According to Alfonso Archi, Tiyabenti's name has Hurrian origin and means "he who speaks favorably" or "she who speaks favorably." Takitu and Tiyabenti coexist in offering lists, where both can accompany Ḫepat, which most likely means that theories according to which one of them was merely an epithet of the other are unsubstantiated.
