Definitions for Enlil

Enlil En·lil

Spelling: [en-lil]
IPA: /ˈɛn lɪl/

Enlil is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Enlil (eilln).

Definitions for Enlil

noun

  1. the king of the Sumerian gods and the god of the air.

Examples for Enlil

Enlil thereupon changes his intention, and going up into the ship, leads Ut-napishtim forth.

The first of these, however, the hymn to Enlil, may be regarded as introductory to the offering of sacrifices.

The stream of Enlil bringeth not good water like the Tigris.

This is indicated by the statement that the kingship is decreed for him by Enlil.

Enlil, the god of Nippur, had a similar career; originally local, he became supreme.

For here there can be no question of any subterfuge in the method employed, since Enlil was a consenting party.

Anu, who heads the list and plays with Enlil the leading part in the Sumerian narrative, was clearly his chief rival.

We shall see that throughout the text Anu and Enlil are the ultimate rulers of both gods and men.

Above we quoted the first two lines of a twenty-five line Sumerian processional hymn to Enlil.

Enlil, the second of the four Sumerian creating deities, eventually ousted his rivals.

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