Enlil

Storm-and-wind god of Nippur, executive king of the gods.

Parentage

• parent: Anu

Children

• Nanna
• Nergal
• Ninurta

Domains

• wind air
• kingship authority

Powers

• Decreeing the destinies of lands and kings
• Loosing the Deluge to silence noisy mankind
• Loose the Deluge to silence mankind

Epithets

• Nunamnir akkadian · Nunamnir · hymnicThe Honoured Prince; the lordly cult-name of EnlilEnlil in the Ekur (Sumerian hymn to Enlil) (primary)
• lugal kur-kur-ra akkadian · lugal kurkurra · cultKing of all the lands; the executive king of the gods at NippurSumerian royal and temple hymns; the Ekur cult of Nippur (primary)
• kur-gal akkadian · kur-gal · hymnicThe Great Mountain; Enlil as the mighty mountain-godHymn to Enlil (Enlil sud-ra-she); cf. the Ekur 'mountain house' (primary)
• bēl šīmāti akkadian · bel shimati · literaryLord of destinies; holder of the Tablet of DestiniesThe Epic of Anzû (the theft of Enlil’s Tablet of Destinies); Sumerian Enlil hymns (primary)

Relations

• sibling: AdadFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Anu) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: EnkiFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Anu) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• equated with: DaganReciprocal of canaanite_dagan.equated-with — Mesopotamian tradition equates Dagan with Enlil (shared 'father of the gods' rank; Dagan even receives Enlil's spouse-name pattern). Preserves senior paternity over the storm-god; domains otherwise differ.L. Feliu, The God Dagan in Bronze Age Syria (2003) (secondary)
• equated with: KumarbiReciprocal of hurrian_kumarbi.equated-with — Mesopotamian-Hurrian lists equate Kumarbi with Enlil, the 'father of the gods' who is not the reigning king. Preserves grain-lordship and senior paternity; Enlil never plots against the storm-king.H. A. Hoffner, Hittite Myths (2nd ed. 1998); G. Wilhelm, The Hurrians (1989) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Hymn to Enlil, the All-Beneficent (primary)