Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning " the son of Enlil ", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.

In later Akkadian, Enlil is the son of Anshar and Kishar.

Enlil is the father of Nisaba the goddess of grain, of Pabilsag who is sometimes equated with Ninurta, and sometimes of Enbilulu.

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.

Enlil is associated with the ancient city of Nippur, sometimes referred to as the cult city of Enlil.

In the later Legend of Atrahasis, Enlil, the king of the gods, sets out to eliminate humanity, whose noise is disturbing his rest.

Enki explains that Enlil is unfair to punish the guiltless, and the gods institute measures to ensure that humanity does not become too populous in the future.

Enlil tells Ninshubur he is much too busy running the cosmos.

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

It is, however, as the third figure in the triad ( the two other members of which were Anu and Enlil ) that Ea acquires his permanent place in the pantheon.

The oldest significant astronomical text that we possess is Tablet 63 of ' Enūma Anu Enlil ', the Venus tablet of Ammi-saduqa, which lists the first and last visible risings of Venus over a period of about 21 years and is the earliest evidence that the phenomena of a planet were recognized as periodic.

Notable amongst these is the Enuma Anu Enlil ( astrological omens ), Šumma ālu ( terrestrial omens ), Šumma izbu ( anomalous births ), Alamdimmû ( physiognomic omens ), and Iškar Zaqīqu ( dream omens ).

He is also occasionally son of Enlil.

He is the son of Enlil and Ninlil.

As the former he is the son of Anu, the god of heaven, but he is likewise associated with Enlil of Nippur as the god of the earth and regarded as his first-born son.

A centre of his cult in Assyria was in Harran, where, because of the predominance of the moon-cult, he is viewed as the son of the moongod Sin, though Nusku was with Enlil when Sin wasn't born yet, and Enlil hadn't married Ninlil-Sin's mother.

While the relationship between Ea and Marduk is marked by harmony and an amicable abdication on the part of the father in favour of his son, Marduk's absorption of the power and prerogatives of Enlil of Nippur was at the expense of the latter's prestige.

When Enlil arrives, angry that there are survivors, she condemns him for instigating the flood.

Humbaba was the guardian of the Cedar Forest, where the gods lived, by the will of the god Enlil, who “ assigned as a terror to human beings .” He is the brother of Pazuzu and Enki and son of Hanbi.

As an illustration of the manner in which the doctrines of the religion were made to conform to the all-pervading astral theory, it will be sufficient to refer to the modification undergone in this process of the view developed in a very early period which apportioned the control of the universe among the three Gods Anu, Enlil and Ea.

The deities gathered in terror, but Anu, ( replaced later, first by Enlil and, in the late version that has survived after the First Dynasty of Babylon, by Marduk, the son of Ea ), first extracting a promise that he would be revered as " king of the gods ", overcame her, armed with the arrows of the winds, a net, a club, and an invincible spear.

" Without corroboration in surviving texts, this surmise that the Babylonian version of the story is based upon a modified version of an older epic, in which Enlil, not Marduk, was the god who slew Tiamat, is more recently dismissed as " distinctly improbable ", in fact, Marduk has no precise Sumerian prototype.

Additionally, a building inscription has been found which mentions the restoration of the Enlil Gate of Babylon shortly after its capture.

One Mesopotamian myth has it that the goddess Inanna abandoned the former capital of Akkad following Naram-Sin's plunder of the Ekur ( temple of the god Enlil ) in Nippur.

He has been identified with the Akkadian god Enlil, the West Semitic god El and the Hurrian father god Kumarbi.

Lambert has suggested that it was during his reign that Marduk was elevated to the head of the pantheon, displacing Enlil and that the Enûma Eliš was possibly composed, but some historians claim an origin during the earlier Kassite dynasty.

With the later rise to power of the Babylonians in the 18th century BCE, the king, Hammurabi, declared Marduk, a deity who before then had not been of significant importance, to a position of supremacy alongside Anu and Enlil.

The " ways " appear in this instance to have been the designation of the ecliptic circle, which was divided into three sections or zones — a northern, a middle and a southern zone, Anu being assigned to the first, Enlil to the second, and Ea to the third zone.

Enlil, along with Anu / An, Enki and Ninhursag were gods of the Sumerians.

She tells her servant Ninshubur ( Lady Evening ), a reference to Inanna's role as the evening star, that if she does not return in three days, to get help from her father Anu, Enlil, king of the gods, or Enki.

The early inscriptions of Urukagina in fact go so far as to suggest that the divine pair, Enki and Ninki, were the progenators of seven pairs of gods, including Enki as god of Eridu, Enlil of Nippur, and Su ' en ( or Sin ) of Ur, and were themselves the children of An ( sky, heaven ) and Ki ( earth ).

In later Babylonian myth Kur is possibly an Anunnaki, brother of Ereshkigal, Enki, and Enlil.

The mes were originally collected by Enlil and then handed over to the guardianship of Enki who was to broker them out to the various Sumerian centers beginning with his own city of Eridu and continuing with Ur, Meluhha, and Dilmun.

Tablet I contains a creation myth about the Sumerian gods Anu, Enlil, and Enki, gods of sky, wind, and water, “ when gods were in the ways of men ” according to its incipit.

Following the Cleromancy ( casting of lots ), sky is ruled by Anu, earth by Enlil, and the freshwater sea by Enki.

In this epic Enlil is depicted as a nasty capricious god while Enki is depicted as a kind helpful god, perhaps because priests of Enki were writing and copying the story.

Tablet III of Atrahasis tells how the god Enki warns the hero Atrahasis (“ Extremely Wise ”) of Shuruppak, speaking through a reed wall ( suggestive of an oracle ) to dismantle his house ( perhaps to provide a construction site ) and build a boat to escape the flood planned by the god Enlil to destroy humankind.

Enlil is furious with Enki for violating his oath.

But Enki denies violating his oath and argues: “ I made sure life was preserved .” Enki and Enlil agree on other means for controlling the human population.

She first appears as a consort of Enlil in Sumerian mythology, and later becomes the Akkadian Damkina, consort of Enki / Ea and mother of the god Marduk.

The myth of Enlil and Ninlil discusses when Enlil was a young god, he was banished from Dilmun, home of the gods, to Kur, the underworld for raping a goddess named Ninlil.