Enlil
c. 2600 BCE – 100 BCEattested
Nippur, Sumer
- Mesopotamian
Lord of wind and command, whose word was the very mechanism by which divine decisions became real. When the gods voted to drown humanity, it was Enlil who carried it out.
Known for
- lord of the command
- decreed the flood
- king of the gods before Marduk
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.