Ancestors of Enlil or Enki-Ninki deities were a group of Mesopotamian deities. Individual lists do not agree on their number, though the enumerations always...

known from the Old Babylonian myth Death of Gilgamesh, where he is mentioned alongside the various ancestors of Enlil. Early Assyriologists viewed Enmesharra...

Hurrian religion or ancestors of Enlil, for example Enmesharra, in Mesopotamian religion. Offerings to him are mentioned in a number of Ugaritic texts. The...

Lahamu aren't necessarily siblings in this context. Long lists of divine ancestors of Enlil or Anu from some god lists were at least sometimes meant to indicate...

sequence consists of Nara, Namšara, Minki, Ammunki, Ammizzadu, Tuḫuši, Alalu, Anu, Antu, Apantu, Enlil and Ninlil. The names of many of the primeval deities...

refer to listings of the latter's ancestors. They are typically less systematic than better known enumerations of the ancestors of Enlil, and in many cases...

regarded as ancestors of Enlil believed to reside in the underworld. According to a hymn from the reign of Ishme-Dagan, dominion over the land of the dead...

appears in enumerations of ancestors of Enlil in god lists. This theonym was also employed as a logogram to represent the name of a goddess worshipped in...

millennium BC. A category of primordial beings common in incantations were pairs of divine ancestors of Enlil and less commonly of Anu. In at least some cases...

confused with Ninšár ("Lady of All"), who alongside the matching male deity Enšár appears in enumerations of ancestors of Enlil in sources such as the god...

Dynastic period). Sometimes all the ancestors were collectively called "the Enkis and the Ninkis." Enki, the ancestor of Enlil, is not to be confused with the...

Mesopotamian theology, in which figures such as ancestors of Enlil developed; in Hurrian sources divine ancestors of deities such as Teshub, Ḫepat, Šauška, Lelluri...

Našuḫ, was a Mesopotamian god best attested as the sukkal (divine vizier) of Enlil. He was also associated with fire and light, and could be invoked as a...

though there she is instead one of the ancestors of Enlil. The god list An = Anum lists the Sumerian names Ninkusi ("lady of gold"), Ninudishara ("mistress...

of Enlil containing 33 stars or constellations the presumably equatorial path of Anu containing 23 stars or constellations, and the southern path of Ea...

those associated with Enlil. At least in some cases, long lists of divine ancestors were meant to help avoid the implications of divine incest, which were...

with the Enki-Ninki deities, the ancestors of Enlil, due to shared association with the earth. Urash was also the name of a male agricultural deity worshiped...

poem Death of Gilgamesh, Šulpae is listed alongside underworld gods, such as Ereshkigal, Ningishzida, Dimmeku and the ancestors of Enlil, but according...

Mesopotamia, epithets were commonly used in place of the main name of the deity, and combinations of a name with an epithet similar to these common in...

the "father of gods" similar to Mesopotamian Enlil or Hurrian Kumarbi, as well as a lord of the land, a god of prosperity, and a source of royal legitimacy...

as ancestors of Enlil. The scribe similarly incorrectly interpreted Ninatta and Kulitta as male deities, despite correctly determining the gender of most...

are dedicated to major, well attested deities such as Enlil, Inanna, Nanna or Ningal, some of the others are sparsely attested and their character is...

the cleromancy ('casting of lots'), the sky is ruled by Anu, Earth by Enlil, and the freshwater sea by Enki. Enlil, god of Earth, assigned junior dingirs...

capital city of the Kingdom of Upper Mesopotamia, and then renamed it Šubat-Enlil (meaning "the residence of the god Enlil" in the Akkadian language) c...

and Isin-Larsa periods.until the first millennium BC, featuring 30 ancestors of Enlil Wood, archaic word-list Word list D, "grain", an archaic Sumerian...

Enlil. Enlil separated heaven from earth and claimed the earth as his domain. Humans were believed to have been created by AnKi or Enki, the son of the...

List A shows him following Adad-šuma-iddina and his predecessor-but-one, Enlil-nadin-šumi, but in Chronicle P he makes his appearance in the narrative...

equal status as the usual heads of the Mesopotamian pantheon, Enlil and Anu, or as a king of the gods in his own right, is also attested, though it only...

of Enuma Elish and Atrahasis was to have Apsu remind people of Enlil, thus the overthrowing of Apsu symbolically represents the dethronement of Enlil...

the kingdom of Babylon. The name Karaduniyaš is mainly used in the letters written between Kadashman-Enlil I or Burna-Buriash, Kings of Babylon, and...