Talk:Enlil

Older brother

You forgot to write that :

Enlil was the older boy-child of Nammu and An. He raped his future wife and sister : Ninlil. They got a boy child from this union : Nanna. Enlil and his young brother Enki fought , but we dont know the end of the story. It seems to be the same story than of Cain and Abel.

sources : http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mythology/assyrbabyl-faq/

I read the original Ninlil Enlil text, and it sais that Nergal the was the result of this unholy union. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Novoneiro (talk • contribs) 06:57, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Adam and Eve

I've read a bit about Enlil while looking some of the comparative mythology associated to the story of Adam and Eve. There should maybe be a note added on how he might be related to this. ADM (talk) 13:25, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

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[~clh][E-engurra, Inc.][IIdor][securus][XOR][securus][IIdor]['request'for'update'][~en.ki][~clh]

Good afternoon esteemed editors, Please make editation to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En-lil

for:

removal of the [r][a][p][i][n][g] passage.

I believe it is taken out of context and possibly mistransliterated.

Please make correction.

Thank you.

[~clh][E-engurra, Inc.][IIdor][securus][XOR][securus][IIdor]['request'for'update'][~en.ki][~clh] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.167.126.211 (talk) 19:10, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Utnapishtim/Atrahasis

In the last paragraph of Cultural History, the mortal surviving the flood is named as Utnapishtim. I believe the name comes, as the link suggests, from the Epic of Gilgamesh, but the story itself is older, and in the original, his name is Atrahasis (after whom the story itself is named). 85.29.68.97 (talk) 21:53, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Enlil, Lord Wind

Two remarks:

- The meaning of Enlil's name derived from its Sumerian rendering en.líl, may be "Lord Wind", but the original meaning arguably was completely different: "God of the Gods", borrowed from Semitic (Eblaitic?). See W.G. Lambert, "The Section AN", in L. Cagni (ed.), Il bilinguismo ad Ebla, Napoli, 1984, 399 ad 802; M. Krebernik, Die Personennamen der Ebla-texte, Berlin, 1988, 84; Th. Jacobsen, "The Lil₂ of ^dEn-lil₂", in E. Leichty et al. (eds), DUMU-E₂-DUB-BA. Studies in Honor of Å.W. Sjöberg, Philadelphia, 1989, 270; P. Michalowski, "The Unbearable Lightness of Enlil", in J. Prosecky (ed.), Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East, Prague, 1998, 241 f.; P. Steinkeller, "On Rulers, Priests, and Sacred Marriage. Tracing the Evolution of Early Sumerian Kingship", in K. Watanabe (ed.), Priests and Officials in the Ancient Near East, Heidelberg, 1999, 114 n. 36.

- Therefore the Sumerian evidence for Enlil's relationship with "wind" and "breath" becomes crucial. However, the reference in note 2 does not provide information to that respect, or it is not easy to retrieve that information on the webpage provided here. Could someone give a more detailed reference (number of the tablet, for instance)? Thanks.

Heunir (talk) 19:21, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

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Lord of the Storm

It makes much more sense now. The major ancient civilizations essentially worshipped the same "gods" under different names.

In Ancient Greece:

There was Cronus. And his most prominent offspring were Zeus (Lord of the Storm), Poseidon (Lord of the Sea, living there too) and Hades (Lord of the Underworld).

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In the Canaanite religion, or Levantine religion as a whole:

There was El (whom the Ancient Greeks actually identified with Cronus). And his most prominent offspring were Hadad (Lord of the Storm), Yam (Lord of the Sea, living there too) and Mot (Lord of the Underworld).

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In the Sumerian religion:

There was Anu. And his most prominent offspring were Enki (Lord of the Sea (abzu), living there too), Enlil (Lord of the Storm) and Ereshkigal (Lady of the Underworld).