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The term "ancestors of Enlil" refers to a group of Mesopotamian deities. [2] They are already attested in Early Dynastic sources. [5] The same group is sometimes instead referred to as "Enki-Ninki deities" (German: Enki-Ninki-Gottheiten), an approximate translation of the plural (d) En-ki-(e-)ne-(d) Nin/Nun-ki-(e-)ne, derived from the names of the pair Enki and Ninki, and used to refer to all ...
Enki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒂗𒆠 D EN-KI) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki.He was later known as Ea (Akkadian: 𒀭𒂍𒀀) or Ae [5] in Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) religion, and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion.
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Enki and Ninki followed by a varying number of pairs of deities whose names start with "En" and "Nin" appear as Enlil's ancestors in various sources: god lists, incantations, liturgical texts, [253] and the Sumerian composition "Death of Gilgamesh," where the eponymous hero encounters these divine ancestors in the underworld. [254]
In Enki and Ninhursag, the goddess complains to Enki that the city of Dilmun is lacking in water. [82] As a result, Enki makes the land rich, and Dilmun becomes a prosperous wetland. [82] Afterwards, he and Ninhursag sleep together, resulting in a daughter, Ninsar [83] (called Ninnisig in the ETCSL translation, [84] Ninmu by Kramer [85]).
Deities considered to be children of Enki and Damgalnuna include Nanshe, Asalluhi, Marduk and Enbilulu. [18] In a variant of the Weidner god list, Damgalnuna is equated with Kiša, the wife of the river god Idlurugu. [19] An Emesal vocabulary apparently mistakes her and her husband for the primordial deities Enki and Ninki. [20]
A recently published myth describing the birth of Enlil, only known from a single copy (MS 3312) and compared to Old Babylonian incantations, keeps his parents nameless, [11] though according to Jeremiah Peterson it is possible that it belongs to the Enki-Ninki tradition. [12] Enki and Ninki are the first generation of Enlil's ancestors in god ...
It has been argued that they were both derived from the Mesopotamian pair Enki and Ninki, [37] [36] the first generation of ancestors of Enlil. [54] [b] Wilfred G. Lambert noted that their names might be phonetic variants of Enki and Ninki otherwise not preserved in writing. [53]