Enlil

The chief god of the Sumerian pantheon, the patron god of Nippur and most important god of the Sumerians until ousted by Marduk in the late 2nd millennium BC. His particular domain was the air, sky, and the storm ('Lord Wind'). He was the son of Anu and inherited his father's title of 'father' or 'king' of the pantheon. Like Anu, he is credited with giving kingship to man, and the Tablet of Destiny, through which the fate of man and gods was decreed, also belonged to Enlil. The god was thought to have been responsible for the downfall of Akkad.

The Sumerian god of air or ‘Lord Wind’, the patron deity of the city of Nippur. He was the son of Anu and inherited his father’s title of ‘father’ or ‘king’ of the pantheon. Like Anu, he is credited with giving kingship to man, and the Tablet of Destiny, through which the fate of man and gods was decreed, also belonged to Enlil. The god was thought to have been responsible for the downfall of Akkad: because of the desecration of his shrine at Nippur by Naram-Sin, he called on the Gutians to invade. Enlil was ultimately dislodged from his prime position in the pantheon by the god of Babylon, Marduk, but this did not occur till late in the 2nd millennium BC.