What do we call the drive to juxtapose multiple variants of an event or omen within a single passage or text such as we find in major first-millennium works like Enūma Anu Enlil and Sa.gig? This article proposes a term from musicology, “heterophony” which describes the practice of presenting multiple variants of a melody simultaneously in a single composition. It will be fruitful to compare with other ancient scholarly presentations of parallel variant narratives and laws such as found in the Hebrew Pentateuch, ancient Jewish commentaries , and elsewhere.