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Bitu's primary function is that of a gatekeeper (ì-du8) of the underworld. In older publications his name was read as Neti. In Inanna's Descent into the Underworld, he leads Inanna through the seven gates of the underworld, removing one of her garments at each gate so that when she comes before Ereshkigal she is naked and symbolically powerless.