Lecture: Babylonian God Enlil

Together with Anu and Enki/Ea he forms a powerful triad of gods in the ancient Mesopotamian religion. In later times he supplanted Anu as chief god.

Enlil ("lord wind") is the god of air, wind and storms, Also called Lord of 'lil'. He is the foremost god of the Mesopotamian pantheon, and is sometimes referred to as Kur-Gal ("great mountain").

The most important God of Mesopotamia, leader of the Igigi and "King" of the Anunnaki.

He separated An and Ki (his grand-parents), and he carried off the earth as his portion. He assumed most of An's powers.

He was also god of the lands and of the earth. He and his people receive the earth in 'Atrahasis' (their "home planet Nibiru"?). He is glorified as "'the father of the gods,' 'the king of heaven and earth,' ' the king of all the lands'".

He is also banished to the "nether world" (Kur, Africa) for his rape of Ninlil, his intended bride, but returns with the first product of their union, the moon god Sin (better known as Nanna).

His consort is Ninlil with whom he has at least four children:

• Nanna
• Nergal
• Ninurta
• Nisaba

Enlil effectuates the dawn, the growth of plants, and bounty. He also invents agricultural tools such as the plow.

The Me were assembled by Enlil in E-kur (his temple) and given to Enki to guard and impart to the world, beginning with Eridu, Enki's centre of worship. He helps Enki when he was cursed by his consort Ninhursag, Enlil and a fox entreat her to return and undo her curse.

Enlil holds possession of the "Tablets of Destiny" which gives him power over the entire cosmos and the affairs of man. He guards the "Tablets of Destiny", which allow him to determines the fate of all things animate or inanimate. He appointed Anzu, a Zu, a storm-bird (a bird with some human qualities) (1) as the guardian of his bath chamber, but while bathing, Anzu stole from him the "Tablet of Destinies", and his Ellil-power.

(1) Again another evil creation of the God's, Enlil was unhappy with all these creatures as we will see later.

Ninurta, with Enki's advise and Belet-ili's urgings slew Anzu and recovered the "Tablets of Destinies" (2).

(2) What were the tablets of Destinies?. Could they be the stones of Wisdom or maybe the "Ten Commandments" covered in the "Ark of the Covenant" from the bible?.

His chief-minister is Nusku, possible slayer of Enmesharra and avenger of his father Anu. He found a throne for Etana to rule from in Kish.

When the Igigi rebelled against him, and surrounded his house He called for Anu.

After man was created in response to the Igigi's grievances, he grew weary of their noise and released several disasters upon them, after each one, man recovered and then he released a new one. The disasters included disease, flood, drought, and the great flood. (3)

(3) Enlil was responsible for many disasters at that time, In my theory Enlil was the God who destroyed several races of monsters and demons from the face of the Earth by spreading diseases and finally the Flood to be sure that all evil creations from other God's were destroyed. Enlil (the leader of the God's) was angry with the other God's who experimented on Earth with all kind of creations who were most evil and wrong.

In the bible we can read :

• Gn:6:4: There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
• Gn:6:5: And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Gn:6:6: And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
• Gn:6:7: And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repented me that I have made them. 
• Gn:6:8: But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
• Gn:6:11: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Gn:6:12: And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
• Gn:6:13: And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

He appointed Humbaba to guard the cedar forest and terrify mankind (4).

(4) Is Humbaba the same as one of the "Cherubim's" and Gugulana (the Bull of Heaven) the same as "a flaming sword" , the guards of the garden of Eden from Genesis 3 in the Bible?.

In the bible we can read :

Gn:3:24: So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim's, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

• He is sometimes friendly towards mankind, but can also be a stern and even cruel god who punishes man and sends forth disasters
• He is a short-tempered god who was responsible for the great flood which wiped out humanity with the exception of Atrahasis
• He decreed that Enkidu must die for the slaying of the Bull of Heaven and Humbaba. He does not answer Gilgamesh's plea to restore Enkidu to life
• His role in this was supplanted by Marduk by the Babylonians
• Enlil is portrayed with a white beard, wearing a crown with horns, symbol of his power
• His most prestigious temple was "Duranki" in the city Nippur, and he was the patron of that city
• Bel was originally the chief spirit (in Sumerian En-lil, the older designation of Bel, which is Semitic for "chief" or "lord")

Some historians believe that Enlil is the same God as Marduk but I think that's impossible because Marduk is the son of Enki/Ea and Ninhursag and not the son of Anu, I mentioned already that I belief that Marduk was the same as Enki/Ea, nevertheless it's still uncertain and possible that the same God's have several names, as you could see above by Ki and others other Gods, see later.

See also the original Sumerian tablets called Enlil and Ninlil, Enlil and Sud and Enlil in the E-kur

Enlil is the same as

• "The Lord God" or "EL" mentioned in Genesis
• the God who expelled Adam and Eve from the garden of Edin (Eden)
• the patron God of Cain when he slew his "brother" Abel
• the God who caused the Flood to destroy Mankind

the God who was furious to the Sons of God in Genesis 6 because they mingled with Mankind

EL became ALLAH by the Moslems.