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1158:"You are lord! You are king! Enlil, you are lord! You are king! Nunamnir, you are lord! You are king! You are supreme lord, you are powerful lord! Lord who makes flax grow, lord who makes barley grow, you are lord of heaven, lord plenty, lord of the earth! You are lord of the earth, lord plenty, lord of heaven! Enlil in heaven, Enlil is king! Lord whose pronouncements cannot be altered at all! His primordial utterances will not be changed! For the praise spoken for Ninlil the mother, praise be to the Great Mountain, Father Enlil! 58: 20: 1181:
Herman Behrens has suggested a ritual context for the myth where dramatic passages were acted out on a voyage between the Ekur and the sanctuary in Nippur. Jerrold Cooper has argued for a more sociological interpretation, explaining about the creation of gods who seem to perform as substitutes for
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Jeremy Black discusses the problems of serial pregnancy and multiple births along with the complex psychology of the myth. He also notes that there are no moral overtones about Enlil being ritually impure. Ewa Wasilewska noted about the location of the tale that
1009:"According to a well-known tradition, represented by the myth of Enlil and Ninlil, time was when Nippur was a city inhabited by gods not men, and this would suggest that it had existed from the very beginning." 1265:
Römer, Willem H.Ph. 1993a. "Mythen und Epen in sumerischer Sprache". In Mythen und Epen I. Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments III, 3. Kaiser, Otto (ed). Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn.
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warning her daughter Ninlil about the likelihood of romantic advances from Enlil if she strays too near the river. Ninlil resists Enlil's first approach after which he entreats his minister
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was believed to exist. He (Enlil) was thus the 'King of the Foreign Lands/Mountains,' where the underworld to which he was banished and from which he returned, was located."
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Kramer, Samuel Noah., Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C., Forgotten Books, First published 1944. Online Version
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Joan Goodnick Westenholz, The Foundation Myths of Mesopotamian Cities, Divine Planners and Human Builder in La fundación de la ciudad: mitos y ritos en el mundo antiguo
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to take him across the river, on the other side the couple meet and float downstream, either bathing or in a boat, then lie on the bank together, kiss, and conceive
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Heimerdinger, Jane W. 1979. Sumerian literary fragments from Nippur. Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund 4. Philadelphia: The University Museum. 1, 37.
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included CBS tablets 8176, 8315, 10309, 10322, 10412, 13853, 29.13.574 and 29.15.611. He also included translations from tablets in the Nippur collection of the
1015:-sag, 'city-head(top)') of Sumer. This conception of Nippur is echoed by Joan Goodnick Westenholz, describing the setting as "civitas dei", existing before the " 1229:
He concludes that the narrative exonerates Enlil and Ninlil indicating nature to have its way even where societal conventions try to contain sexual desire.
1024:"There was a city, there was a city -- the one we live in. Nibru (Nippur) was the city, the one we live in. Dur-jicnimbar was the city, the one we live in. 1047: 1207:"(1) the moon god was regarded as rejuvenating living things; (2) Nergal was associated occasionally with agricultural growth but more often with 1033: 1795:
Enlil and Ninlil., Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford 1998-.
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Enlil and Ninlil., Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Robson, E., and Zólyomi, G., The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford 1998-.
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Jacobsen, Thorkild. 1987. The Harps that Once .. Sumerian Poetry in Translation. New Haven/London: Yale University Press. p. 167-180.
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Bottéro, Jean and Kramer, Samuel Noah. 1989, reprinted 1993. Lorsque les dieux faisaient l'homme rev. Éditions Gallimard. p. 105-115.
1153:, however Jeremy Black has linked this god to management of irrigation. The myth ends with praise for the fertility of Enlil and Ninlil. 937:". The tablet is 6.5 inches (17 cm) by 4.5 inches (11 cm) by 1.2 inches (3.0 cm) at its thickest point. Barton noted that 843: 1238:
Behrens, Hermann. 1978. Enlil und Ninlil. Ein sumerischer Mythos aus Nippur. Studia Pohl Series Major 8. Rome: Biblical Institute Press.
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Hall, Mark Glenn. 1985. A Study of the Sumerian Moon-God, Nanna/Suen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. p. 524-526.
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Cooper, Jerrold S. 1980. "Critical Review. Hermann Behrens, Enlil und Ninlil etc.". In Journal of Cuneiform Studies 32. 175–188.
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Robert Payne has suggested that the initial scene of the courtship takes place on the bank of a canal instead of a river.
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Cheira, Edward., Sumerian Epics and Myths, University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications, 1934. Online Version
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Röllig, Wolfgang. 1981. "Review of Behrens 1978". In Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 131. 430.
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Enlil and Ninlil - Electronic and Print Sources - The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford 1998-.
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There follows three similar episodes as Enlil leaves the city, speaking to as the keeper of the city gate (
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Barton, George Aaron., Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions, Yale University Press, 1918. Online Version
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Celibacy in the Ancient World: Its Ideal and Practice in Pre-Hellenistic Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece
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produced in 1989 with latest translations by Willem Römer in 1993 and Joachim Krecher in 1996.
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Green, Margaret Whitney. 1982. "Review of Behrens 1978". In Bibliotheca Orientalis 39. 339–344.
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Sumerian mythology: a study of spiritual and literary achievement in the third millennium B.C.
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him and each time they conceive another god. Two of the offspring are gods of the underworld,
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Theophilus G. Pinches in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, Volume 33 f. 85
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him for his relationship with Ninlil and exile him from the city for being ritually impure.
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Enlil (with the Bull God's hooves and horns) and Ninlil in a 2nd millennium BC mural from
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Geller, M.J. 1980. "Review of Behrens 1978". In Archiv für Orientforschung 27. 168–170.
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Sumerian literary texts from Nippur: in the Museum of the Ancient Orient at Istanbul
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Transliteration - The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, Oxford 1998-.
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Jeremy A. Black; Jeremy Black; Graham Cunningham; Eleanor Robson (13 April 2006).
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is its branching canal, and if one measures from there, its cultivated land is 50
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each way. Enlil was one of its young men, and Ninlil was one its young women.
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Miguel Ángel Borrás; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2000).
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, f. 190
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The canal builders: the story of canal engineers through the ages, p. 22
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Another tablet from the same collection, number 13853 was used by
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section (CBS), tablet number 9205 from their excavations at the
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The story opens with a description of the city of Nippur, its
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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1919).
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to restore part of the second column of Barton's tablet in
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Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) (1911).
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As Enlil was going about in the 925:Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions 941:had published part of an equivalent 929:, number seven, entitled "A Myth of 1619:Creation stories of the Middle East 13: 1749:. Liturgical Press. pp. 28–. 1715:. Psychology Press. pp. 40–. 1709:Charles Penglase (24 March 1997). 1388:Sumerian epics and myths, 77, p. 5 1232: 1184:"to tell the origins of four gods" 878:in the mid to late 3rd millennium 72:Religions of the ancient Near East 56: 14: 1856: 1773: 1743:Dale Launderville (1 July 2010). 1391:. The University of Chicago Press 1127:"When did your lord Enlil go by?" 1125:. Ninlil follows him asking each 1297:Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D) 1282:Debate between Winter and Summer 1585:The Literature of Ancient Sumer 917:in 1918 and first published as 778:Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta 1535:. Edicions UPC. pp. 48–. 1498:Babylonian topographical texts 1477: 1287:Debate between sheep and grain 885: 1: 1332: 1164: 1345:George Aaron Barton (1918). 1133:upon which Ninlil offers to 1099:"keeper of the holy barrier" 965:Museum of the Ancient Orient 7: 1681:. Routledge. pp. 47–. 1435:Samuel Noah Kramer (1961). 1410:Samuel Noah Kramer (1944). 1270: 10: 1861: 1075:"Enlil was walking in the 957:"Sumerian Epics and Myths" 919:"Sumerian religious texts" 1201:in a discussion entitled 913:. This was translated by 61:Chaos Monster and Sun God 1675:Gwendolyn Leick (1998). 982: 861:Myth of Enlil and Ninlil 1616:Ewa Wasilewska (2000). 1351:. Yale University Press 1066:, where the other gods 894:were discovered on the 890:The first lines of the 1830:Mythological mountains 1385:Edward Chiera (1964). 1162: 1105:), the man who guards 1103:"man of the pure lock" 1095: 1044: 62: 32: 16:Sumerian creation myth 1840:Religious cosmologies 1650:Robert Payne (1959). 1495:A. R. 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Index


Susa
Louvre
a series
Ancient
Mesopotamian religion

Chaos Monster and Sun God
Religions of the ancient Near East
Anatolia
Ancient Egypt
Mesopotamia
Babylonia
Sumer
Iranian
Semitic
Arabia
Canaan
Tiamat
Abzu
Lahamu
Lahmu
Kishar
Anshar
Mummu
Anu
Enlil
Enki
Ninhursag
Inanna/Ishtar
Nanna/Sin
Utu/Shamash

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