History
Enlil
Lord of the air and the executive power of the pantheon, whose house at Nippur made that city the place a king had to be recognised in.
𒀭𒂗𒆤dEN.LÍLlord wind, the first door
- Epithets:
- lord of the air; father of the great houses; the Great Mountain.
- Kin:
- son of An; father of Nanna (by Ninlil) and, in the standard tradition, of Nergal.
In the myths:
the executive power of the pantheon from the mid-3rd millennium on; his temple is the Ekur at Nippur; in Inana's descent (ETCSL 1.4.1) he is the first door the minister is told to knock on, and he refuses.
Where they were worshipped
The city this power belonged to, and the periods our chronology places it in.
As attested
What the record has
Everything above is the myth as the texts and the scholarship have it, and the sources are listed so you can check us. The chronicle uses this figure; it does not add to them.
Sources
The pages this entry is drawn from. ORACC and ETCSL are the scholarly editions; the rest are general references.
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