Enlil



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Enlil

God of wind, air, earth, and storms

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Ancient Persian cylinder seal dating to between 550 and 330 BC, depicting an unidentified king wearing the horned crown, Enlil's primary symbol

Abode
Nippur
Symbol
Horned crown
Personal information
Consort
Ninlil
Children
Ninurta, Nanna/Suen, Nergal, Ninazu, and Enbilulu
Parents
An and Ki
Equivalents
Babylonian equivalent
Elil
Hurrian equivalent
Kumarbi


Enlil,[a] later known as Elil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms.[4] He is first attested as the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon,[5] but he was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hurrians. Enlil's primary center of worship was the Ekur temple in the city of Nippur, which was believed to have been built by Enlil himself and was regarded as the "mooring-rope" of heaven and earth. He is also sometimes referred to in Sumerian texts as Nunamnir. According to one Sumerian hymn, Enlil himself was so holy that not even the other gods could look upon him. Enlil rose to prominence during the twenty-fourth century BC with the rise of Nippur. His cult fell into decline after Nippur was sacked by the Elamites in 1230 BC and he was eventually supplanted as the chief god of the Mesopotamian pantheon by the Babylonian national god Marduk. The Babylonian god Bel was a syncretic deity of Enlil, Marduk, and the dying god Dumuzid.


Enlil plays a vital role in the Sumerian creation myth; he separates An (heaven) from Ki (earth), thus making the world habitable for humans. In the Sumerian Flood myth, Enlil rewards Ziusudra with immortality for having survived the flood and, in the Babylonian flood myth, Enlil is the cause of the flood himself, having sent the flood to exterminate the human race, who made too much noise and prevented him from sleeping. The myth of Enlil and Ninlil is about Enlil's serial seduction of the goddess Ninlil in various guises, resulting in the conception of the moon-god Nanna and the Underworld deities Nergal, Ninazu, and Enbilulu. Enlil was regarded as the inventor of the mattock and the patron of agriculture. Enlil also features prominently in several myths involving his son Ninurta, including Anzû and the Tablet of Destinies and Lugale.




Contents





  • 1 Etymology


  • 2 Worship


  • 3 Iconography


  • 4 Mythology

    • 4.1 Origins myths


    • 4.2 Flood myth


    • 4.3 Chief god and arbitrator


    • 4.4 Ninurta myths


    • 4.5 War of the gods



  • 5 See also


  • 6 Notes


  • 7 References

    • 7.1 Bibliography



  • 8 External links




Etymology


Enlil's name comes from ancient Sumerian EN, meaning "lord" and LÍL meaning "wind".[1][2][3] His name therefore literally translates as "Lord Wind".[1][3] Enlil's name is not a genitive construction,[6] indicating that Enlil was seen as the personification of the wind itself rather than merely the cause of wind.[6]



Worship




Modern photograph of the ruins of the Ekur temple at Nippur




Floor plan of the Ekur temple in Nippur







Cuneiform inscription on a diorite mortar from Nippur stating that this was an offering from Gudea to Enlil (c. 2144 – 2124 BC)


Enlil was the patron god of the Sumerian city-state of Nippur[8] and his main center of worship was the Ekur temple located there.[9] The name of the temple literally means "Mountain House" in ancient Sumerian.[10] The Ekur was believed to have been built and established by Enlil himself.[10] It was believed to be the "mooring-rope" of heaven and earth,[10] meaning that it was seen as "a channel of communication between earth and heaven".[11] A hymn written during the reign of Ur-Nammu, the founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur, describes the E-kur in great detail, stating that its gates were carved with scenes of Imdugud, a lesser deity sometimes shown as a giant bird, slaying a lion and an eagle snatching up a sinner.[10]


The Sumerians believed that the sole purpose of humanity's existence was to serve the gods.[12][13] They thought that a god's statue was a physical embodiment of the god himself.[14][15] As such, cult statues were given constant care and attention[16][14] and a set of priests were assigned to tend to them.[17] People worshipped Enlil by offering food and other human necessities to him.[12] The food, which was ritually laid out before the god's cult statue in the form of a feast,[16][14] was believed to be Enlil's daily meal,[12] but, after the ritual, it would be distributed among his priests.[12] These priests were also responsible for changing the cult statue's clothing.[15]


The Sumerians envisioned Enlil as a benevolent, fatherly deity, who watches over humanity and cares for their well-being.[18] One Sumerian hymn describes Enlil as so glorious that even the other gods could not look upon him.[19][20] The same hymn also states that, without Enlil, civilization could not exist.[20] Enlil's epithets include titles such as "the Great Mountain" and "King of the Foreign Lands".[19] Enlil is also sometimes described as a "raging storm", a "wild bull", and a "merchant".[19] The Mesopotamians envisioned him as a creator, a father, a king, and the supreme lord of the universe.[19][21] He was also known as "Nunamnir"[19] and is referred to in at least one text as the "East Wind and North Wind".[19]


Kings regarded Enlil as a model ruler and sought to emulate his example.[22] Enlil was said to be supremely just[7] and intolerant towards evil.[7] Rulers from all over Sumer would travel to Enlil's temple in Nippur to be legitimized.[23] They would return Enlil's favor by devoting lands and precious objects to his temple as offerings.[24] Nippur was the only Sumerian city-state that never built a palace;[12] this was intended to symbolize the city's importance as the center of the cult of Enlil by showing that Enlil himself was the city's king.[12] Even during the Babylonian Period, when Marduk had superseded Enlil as the supreme god, Babylonian kings still traveled to the holy city of Nippur to seek recognition of their right to rule.[24]


Enlil first rose to prominence during the twenty-fourth century BC, when the importance of the god An began to wane.[25][26] During this time period, Enlil and An are frequently invoked together in inscriptions.[25] Enlil remained the supreme god in Mesopotamia throughout the Amorite Period,[27] with Amorite monarchs proclaiming Enlil as the source of their legitimacy.[27] Enlil's importance began to wane after the Babylonian king Hammurabi conquered Sumer.[28] The Babylonians worshipped Enlil under the name "Elil"[4] and the Hurrians syncretized him with their own god Kumarbi.[4] In one Hurrian ritual, Enlil and Apantu are invoked as "the father and mother of Išḫara".[29] Enlil is also invoked alongside Ninlil as a member of "the mighty and firmly established gods".[29]


During the Kassite Period (c. 1592 BC – 1155 BC), Nippur briefly managed to regain influence in the region and Enlil rose to prominence once again.[28] From around 1300 BC onwards, Enlil was syncretized with the Assyrian national god Aššur,[30] who was the most important deity in the Assyrian pantheon.[31] Then, in 1230 BC, the Elamites attacked Nippur and the city fell into decline, taking the cult of Enlil along with it.[28] Approximately one hundred years later, Enlil's role as the head of the pantheon was given to Marduk, the national god of the Babylonians.[28][32] Enlil's importance in the pantheon significantly declined[32] and he was sometimes assimilated as merely an aspect of Marduk.[32] Nonetheless, his temples continued functioning throughout the Neo-Assyrian period (911 BC — 609 BC)[32] and even the Babylonians saw Anu and Enlil as the ones who bestowed Marduk with his powers.[32] During the first millennium BC, the Babylonians worshipped a deity under the title "Bel", meaning "lord", who was a syncretization of Enlil, Marduk, and the dying god Dumuzid.[33][34] Bel held all the cultic titles of Enlil[34] and his status in the Babylonian religion was largely the same.[34] Eventually, Bel came to be seen as the god of order and destiny.[34] Meanwhile, Aššur continued to be known as "the Assyrian Enlil" or "the Enlil of the gods".[32] After the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Enlil's statues were smashed and his temples were destroyed because he had become inextricably associated with the Assyrians, who many conquered peoples hated.[32] Enlil continued to be venerated under the name of Marduk until around 141 BC, when the cult of Marduk fell into terminal decline, and was eventually forgotten entirely.[32]



Iconography


Enlil was not represented anthropomorphically in Mesopotamian iconography.[35] Instead, he was represented by a horned cap,[35] which consisted of up to seven superimposed pairs of ox-horns.[36] Such crowns were an important symbol of divinity;[37][38] gods had been shown wearing them ever since the third millennium BC.[37] The horned cap remained consistent in form and meaning from the earliest days of Sumerian prehistory up until the time of the Persian conquest and beyond.[37][15]


The Sumerians had a complex numerological system, in which certain numbers were believed to hold special ritual significance.[39] Within this system, Enlil was associated with the number fifty, which was considered sacred to him.[40] Enlil was part of a triad of deities, which also included An and Enki.[41][42][43][44] These three deities together were the embodiment of all the fixed stars in the night sky.[45][43] An was identified with all the stars of the equatorial sky, Enlil with those of the northern sky, and Enki with those of the southern sky.[45][43] The path of Enlil's celestial orbit was a continuous, symmetrical circle around the north celestial pole,[46] but those of An and Enki were believed to intersect at various points.[47] Enlil was associated with the constellation Boötes.[19]



Mythology



Origins myths




The Sumerians believed that the world began when Enlil separated the earth from the sky.[48]


Main article: Sumerian creation myth

The main source of information about the Sumerian creation myth is the prologue to the epic poem Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld (ETCSL 1.8.1.4),[49] which briefly describes the process of creation: originally, there was only Nammu, the primeval sea.[48] Then, Nammu gave birth to An, the sky, and Ki, the earth.[48] An and Ki mated with each other, causing Ki to give birth to Enlil.[48] Enlil separated An from Ki and carried off the earth as his domain, while An carried off the sky.[50]


Enlil and Ninlil (ETCSL 1.2.1) is a nearly complete 152-line Sumerian poem describing the affair between Enlil and the goddess Ninlil.[51][52] First, Ninlil's mother Nunbarshegunu instructs Ninlil to go bathe in the river.[53] Ninlil goes to the river, where Enlil seduces her and impregnates her with their son, the moon-god Nanna.[52] Because of this, Enlil is banished to Kur, the Sumerian underworld.[52] Ninlil follows Enlil to the underworld, where he impersonates the "man of the gate".[54] Ninlil demands to know where Enlil has gone, but Enlil, still impersonating the gatekeeper, refuses to answer.[54] He then seduces Ninlil and impregnates her with Nergal, the god of death.[55] The same scenario repeats, only this time Enlil instead impersonates the "man of the river of the nether world, the man-devouring river"; once again, he seduces Ninlil and impregnates her with the god Ninazu.[56] Finally, Enlil impersonates the "man of the boat"; once again, he seduces Ninlil and impregnates her with Enbilulu, the "inspector of the canals".[57]


The story of Enlil's courtship with Ninlil is primarily a genealogical myth invented to explain the origins of the moon-god Nanna, as well as the various gods of the Underworld,[51] but it is also, to some a extent, a coming-of-age story describing Enlil and Ninlil's emergence from adolescence into adulthood.[58] The story also explains Ninlil's role as Enlil's consort; in the poem, Ninlil declares, "As Enlil is your master, so am I also your mistress!"[59] The story is also historically significance because, if the current interpretation of it is correct, it is the oldest known myth in which a god changes shape.[51]



Flood myth


In the Sumerian version of the flood story (ETCSL 1.7.4), the causes of the flood are unclear because the portion of the tablet recording the beginning of the story has been destroyed.[60] Somehow, a mortal known as Ziusudra manages to survive the flood, likely through the help of the god Enki.[61] The tablet begins in the middle of the description of the flood.[61] The flood lasts for seven days and seven nights before it subsides.[62] Then, Utu, the god of the Sun, emerges.[62] Ziusudra opens a window in the side of the boat and falls down prostrate before the god.[62] Next, he sacrifices an ox and a sheep in honor of Utu.[62] At this point, the text breaks off again.[62] When it picks back up, Enlil and An are in the midst of declaring Ziusudra immortal as an honor for having managed to survive the flood. The remaining portion of the tablet after this point is destroyed.[62]


In the later Akkadian version of the flood story, recorded in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enlil actually causes the flood,[63] seeking to annihilate every living thing on earth because the humans, who are vastly overpopulated, make too much noise and prevent him from sleeping.[64] In this version of the story, the hero is Utnapishtim,[65] who is warned ahead of time by Ea, the Babylonian equivalent of Enki, that the flood is coming.[66] The flood lasts for seven days; when it ends, Ishtar, who had mourned the destruction of humanity,[67] promises Utnapishtim that Enlil will never cause a flood again.[68] When Enlil sees that Utnapishtim and his family have survived, he is outraged,[69] but his son Ninurta speaks up in favor of humanity, arguing that, instead of causing floods, Enlil should simply ensure that humans never become overpopulated by reducing their numbers using wild animals and famines.[70] Enlil goes into the boat; Utnapishtim and his wife bow before him.[70] Enlil, now appeased, grants Utnapishtim immortality as a reward for his loyalty to the gods.[71]



Chief god and arbitrator





A nearly complete 108-line poem from the Early Dynastic Period (c. 2900 – 2350 BC) describes Enlil's invention of the mattock,[73][74] a key agricultural pick, hoe, ax, or digging tool of the Sumerians.[75][74] In the poem, Enlil conjures the mattock into existence and decrees its fate.[76] The mattock is described as gloriously beautiful; it is made of pure gold and has a head carved from lapis lazuli.[76] Enlil gives the tool over to the humans, who use it to build cities,[72] subjugate their people,[72] and pull up weeds.[72] Enlil was believed to aid in the growth of plants.[75]


The Sumerian poem Enlil Chooses the Farmer-God (ETCSL 5.3.3) describes how Enlil, hoping "to establish abundance and prosperity", creates two gods Emesh and Enten, a farmer and a shepherd respectively.[77] The two gods argue and Emesh lays claim to Enten's position.[78] They take the dispute before Enlil, who rules in favor of Enten;[79] the two gods rejoice and reconcile.[79]



Ninurta myths





Ninurta with his thunderbolts pursues Anzû, who has stolen the Tablet of Destinies from Enlil's sanctuary[80] (Austen Henry Layard Monuments of Nineveh, 2nd Series, 1853)


In the Sumerian poem Lugale (ETCSL 1.6.2), Enlil gives advice to his son, the god Ninurta, advising him on a strategy to slay the demon Asag.[81] This advice is relayed to Ninurta by way of Sharur, his enchanted talking mace, which had been sent by Ninurta to the realm of the gods to seek counsel from Enlil directly.[81]


In the Old, Middle, and Late Babylonian myth of Anzû and the Tablet of Destinies, the Anzû, a giant, monstrous bird,[82] betrays Enlil and steals the Tablet of Destinies,[83] a sacred clay tablet belonging to Enlil that grants him his authority,[84] while Enlil is preparing for a bath.[85] The rivers dry up and the gods are stripped of their powers.[85] The gods send Adad, Gerra, and Shara to defeat the Anzû,[85] but all of them fail.[85] Finally, Ea proposes that the gods should send Ninurta, Enlil's son.[85] Ninurta successfully defeats the Anzû and returns the Tablet of Destinies to his father.[85] As a reward, Ninurta is a granted a prominent seat on the council of the gods.[85]



War of the gods


A badly damaged text from the Neo-Assyrian Period (911 — 612 BC) describes Marduk leading his army of Anunnaki into the sacred city of Nippur and causing a disturbance.[86] The disturbance causes a flood,[86] which forces the resident gods of Nippur under the leadership of Enlil to take shelter in the Eshumesha temple to Ninurta.[86] Enlil is enraged at Marduk's transgression and orders the gods of Eshumesha to take Marduk and the other Anunnaki as prisoners.[86] The Anunnaki are captured,[86] but Marduk appoints his front-runner Mushteshirhablim to lead a revolt against the gods of Eshumesha[87] and sends his messenger Neretagmil to alert Nabu, the god of literacy.[87] When the Eshumesha gods hear Nabu speak, they come out of their temple to search for him.[88] Marduk defeats the Eshumesha gods and takes 360 of them as prisoners of war, including Enlil himself.[88] Enlil protests that the Eshumesha gods are innocent,[88] so Marduk puts them on trial before the Anunnaki.[88] The text ends with a warning from Damkianna (another name for Ninhursag) to the gods and to humanity, pleading them not to repeat the war between the Anunnaki and the gods of Eshumesha.[88]



See also



  • Cronus

  • El

  • Hymn to Enlil

  • Yahweh


Notes




  1. ^ Sumerian: 𒀭𒂗𒆤 dEN.LÍL, "Lord Wind"[1][2][3]




References




  1. ^ abc Halloran 2006.


  2. ^ ab Holland 2009, p. 114.


  3. ^ abc Nemet-Nejat 1998, p. 182.


  4. ^ abc Coleman & Davidson 2015, p. 108.


  5. ^ Kramer 1983, pp. 115–121.


  6. ^ ab van der Toorn, Becking & Willem 1999, p. 356.


  7. ^ abc Kramer 1963, p. 120.


  8. ^ Hallo 1996, pp. 231–234.


  9. ^ Black & Green 1992, pp. 74 and 76.


  10. ^ abcd Black & Green 1992, p. 74.


  11. ^ Black & Green 1992, p. 53.


  12. ^ abcdef Janzen 2004, p. 247.


  13. ^ Kramer 1963, p. 123.


  14. ^ abc Black & Green 1992, p. 94.


  15. ^ abc Nemet-Nejat 1998, p. 186.


  16. ^ ab Nemet-Nejat 1998, pp. 186–187.


  17. ^ Nemet-Nejat 1998, pp. 186–188.


  18. ^ Kramer 1963, p. 119.


  19. ^ abcdefg Black & Green 1992, p. 76.


  20. ^ ab Kramer 1963, p. 121.


  21. ^ Kramer 1963, pp. 119–121.


  22. ^ Grottanelli & Mander 2005, p. 5,162a.


  23. ^ Littleton 2005, pp. 480–482.


  24. ^ ab Littleton 2005, p. 482.


  25. ^ ab Schneider 2011, p. 58.


  26. ^ Kramer 1963, p. 118.


  27. ^ ab Schneider 2011, pp. 58–59.


  28. ^ abcd Schneider 2011, p. 59.


  29. ^ ab Archi 1990, p. 114.


  30. ^ Black & Green 1992, p. 38.


  31. ^ Black & Green 1992, p. 37.


  32. ^ abcdefgh Mark 2017.


  33. ^ Fontenrose 1980, p. 440.


  34. ^ abcd Doniger 1990, p. 120.


  35. ^ ab Moore 1977, p. 76.


  36. ^ Black & Green 1992, p. 102.


  37. ^ abc Black & Green 1992, p. 98.


  38. ^ Nemet-Nejat 1998, p. 185.


  39. ^ McEvilley 2002, pp. 171–172.


  40. ^ Röllig 1971, pp. 499–500.


  41. ^ Tsumura 2005, p. 134.


  42. ^ Delaporte 1996, p. 137.


  43. ^ abc Nemet-Nejat 1998, p. 203.


  44. ^ Kramer 1963, pp. 118–122.


  45. ^ ab Rogers 1998, p. 13.


  46. ^ Levenda 2008, p. 29.


  47. ^ Levenda 2008, pp. 29–30.


  48. ^ abcd Kramer 1961, pp. 37–40.


  49. ^ Kramer 1961, pp. 30–33.


  50. ^ Kramer 1961, pp. 37–41.


  51. ^ abc Kramer 1961, p. 43.


  52. ^ abc Jacobsen 1946, pp. 128–152.


  53. ^ Kramer 1961, p. 44.


  54. ^ ab Kramer 1961, pp. 44–45.


  55. ^ Kramer 1961, p. 45.


  56. ^ Kramer 1961, p. 46.


  57. ^ Black, Cunningham & Robson 2006, p. 106.


  58. ^ Leick 2013, p. 66.


  59. ^ Leick 2013, p. 67.


  60. ^ Kramer 1961, p. 97.


  61. ^ ab Kramer 1961, pp. 97–98.


  62. ^ abcdef Kramer 1961, p. 98.


  63. ^ Dalley 1989, p. 109.


  64. ^ Dalley 1989, pp. 109–111.


  65. ^ Dalley 1989, pp. 109–110.


  66. ^ Dalley 1989, pp. 110–111.


  67. ^ Dalley 1989, p. 113.


  68. ^ Dalley 1989, pp. 114–115.


  69. ^ Dalley 1989, p. 115.


  70. ^ ab Dalley 1989, pp. 115–116.


  71. ^ Dalley 1989, p. 116.


  72. ^ abcd Kramer 1961, p. 53.


  73. ^ Kramer 1961, pp. 51–53.


  74. ^ ab Green 2003, p. 37.


  75. ^ ab Hooke 2004.


  76. ^ ab Kramer 1961, p. 52.


  77. ^ Kramer 1961, pp. 49–50.


  78. ^ Kramer 1961, p. 50.


  79. ^ ab Kramer 1961, p. 51.


  80. ^ Black & Green 1992, p. 142.


  81. ^ ab Penglase 1994, p. 68.


  82. ^ Leick 1991, p. 9.


  83. ^ Leick 1991, pp. 9–10.


  84. ^ Black & Green 1992, p. 173.


  85. ^ abcdefg Leick 1991, p. 10.


  86. ^ abcde Oshima 2010, p. 145.


  87. ^ ab Oshima 2010, pp. 145–146.


  88. ^ abcde Oshima 2010, p. 146.



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  • Rogers, John H. (1998), "Origins of the Ancient Astronomical Constellations: I: The Mesopotamian Traditions", Journal of the British Astronomical Association, London, England: The British Astronomical Association, 108 (1): 9–28, Bibcode:1998JBAA..108....9R 


  • Röllig, Werner (1971), "Götterzahlen", in E. Ebeling; B. Miessner, Eds., Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischeen Archäologie, 3, Berlin, Germany: Walther de Gruyter & Co., pp. 499–500 


  • Penglase, Charles (1994), Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-15706-4 


  • Schneider, Tammi J. (2011), An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion, Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdman's Publishing Company, ISBN 978-0-8028-2959-7 


  • Tsumura, David Toshio (2005), Creation and Destruction: A Reappraisal of the Chaoskampf Theory in the Old Testament, Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, ISBN 1-57506-106-6 


  • van der Toorn, Karel; Becking, Bob; Willem, Pieter (1999), Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (second ed.), Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdman's Publishing Company, ISBN 0-8028-2491-9 



External links






  • Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses: Enlil/Ellil (god)


  • Gateway to Babylon: "Enlil and Ninlil", trans. Thorkild Jacobsen.


  • Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature: "Enlil and Ninlil" (original Sumerian) and English translation


  • Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature: Sumerian Flood myth (original Sumerian) and English translation







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