Nergal, Nanna, Ninurta (sometimes, otherwise addressed as the son of Ninhursag)
Pabilsag (through identification with Nintur)
Ninazu (possibly due to analogies with Nergal)
Enbilulu (in the myth Enlil and Ninlil)
Ishum (in a single source, due to confusion between Sud and Sudaĝ)
Equivalents
Syrian equivalent
Shalash
Ugaritic equivalent
Athirat
Assyrian equivalent
Mullissu and possibly Šerua
Ninlil (𒀭𒎏𒆤DNIN.LÍL; meaning uncertain) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of Enlil. She shared many of his functions, especially the responsibility for declaring destinies, and like him was regarded as a senior deity and head of the pantheon. She is also well attested as the mother of his children, such as the underworld god Nergal, the moon god Nanna or the warrior god Ninurta. She was chiefly worshiped in Nippur and nearby Tummal alongside Enlil, and multiple temples and shrines dedicated to her are attested in textual sources from these cities. In the first millennium BCE she was also introduced to Ḫursaĝkalamma near Kish, where she was worshiped alongside the goddess Bizilla, who was likely her sukkal (attendant deity).
At an early date Ninlil was identified with the goddess Sud from Shuruppak, like her associated with Enlil, and eventually fully absorbed her. In the myth Enlil and Sud, Ninlil is the name Sud received after marrying Enlil. Nisaba, the goddess of writing, and her husband Haya are described as her parents. While Ninlil's mother bears a different name, Nunbaršegunu, in the myth Enlil and Ninlil, the god list An = Anum states that it was an alternate name of Nisaba. Syncretism with Sud also resulted in Ninlil acquiring some of her unique characteristics, such as an association with healing goddesses and with Sudaĝ, a name of the wife of the sun god Shamash. References to these connections can be found in various Mesopotamian texts, such as a hymn referring to Ninlil as a healing goddess or a myth apparently confusing her with Sudaĝ in the role of mother of Ishum.
In Syrian cities such as Mari, Emar and Ugarit, Ninlil was closely associated with the local goddess Shalash, the spouse of Dagan, a god regarded as analogous to Enlil. This equivalence is also attested in Hurrian religion, in which Shalash was the spouse of Kumarbi, another god regarded as similar to Enlil. However, Ninlil is also attested as a distinct deity in Hurrian texts, and could serve as a divine witness of treaties in this context.
In the Neo-Assyrian Empire Ninlil was reinterpreted as the spouse of the supreme Assyrian god Ashur, and in this role developed into Mullissu, who in turn could be identified with various deities from the pantheon of Assyria, such as Šerua or local forms of Ishtar from cities such as Nineveh.
Enlil and Ninlil, the Myth of Enlil and Ninlil, or Enlil and Ninlil: The begetting of Nanna is a Sumerian creation myth, written on clay tablets in the...
prevented him from sleeping. The myth of Enlil and Ninlil is about Enlil's serial seduction of the goddess Ninlil in various guises, resulting in the conception...
elsewhere, of Enlil and Ninlil (an association originating in Eshnunna but present also in other sources, including the myth Enlil and Ninlil), or of Suen. Frans...
archived from the original on 2023-01-11, retrieved 2017-09-20 "An adab to Ninlil (Ninlil A)". Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. Archived from the...
underworld, depending on the myth either on behalf of his parents Enlil and Ninlil, or in later periods as a result of his marriage with the goddess Ereshkigal...
Assyrian god Asshur. Mullissu may be identical with the Sumerian goddess Ninlil, wife of the god Enlil, which would parallel the fact that Asshur himself...
HUR.SAG.GA. It is also possible that texts from the same city mentioning Ninlil and Ninkugi refer to Shalash. In Yazılıkaya, the name is written in hieroglyphs...
other carnelian bead is in the British Museum, its inscription reads: "To Ninlil, his Lady, Shulgi, mighty man, king of Ur, king of the lands of Sumer and...
Tummal (Tum-ma-alki) was an ancient Near East cult site of the goddess Ninlil, as Egi-Tummal (Lady of Tummal), currently unlocated but known to be in the...
two different narratives about his marriage, Enlil and Sud and Enlil and Ninlil, in Atrahasis, in the Anzû narrative, and in other compositions. Hymns dedicated...
goddess of Shuruppak, in later periods fully conflated with Enlil's wife Ninlil. According to the god list An = Anum, Nisaba had two sukkals (attendant...
view that Enlil and Ninlil created mankind and living things. He noted that Nintud, the primary goddess of Kesh was "a form of Ninlil in Nippur : in other...
Euphrates in Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate. Shuruppak was dedicated to Ninlil, also called Sud, the goddess of grain and the air. "Shuruppak" is sometimes...
beam of Ninurta's chariot (lines 55–63). Bull of Heaven Kusarikku Lamassu Ninlil Sumerian religion Anzû "The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature"...
disorder Sustainable drainage system 'Sud, nickname for Alfa Romeo Alfasud Ninlil, a Sumerian goddess originally called Sud Sud - Muntenia (development region)...
the wife of Shamash (Aya). Due to an association between Sudaĝ and Sud (Ninlil), a myth lists the latter as his mother instead. Manfred Krebernik considers...
texts as the 'old woman of Nippur', she is identified as the mother of Ninlil, the air goddess. Ninbarsegunu instructs her daughter in the arts of obtaining...
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