"Enlil"
Enlil (nlin), (EN = Lord + LIL = Loft, "Lord of the Open" or "Lord of the Wind" and God of the weather) is the name of a chief deity listed and written about in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite and other Mesopotamian clay and stone tablets.
He is associated with the ancient city of Nippur, sometimes referred to as the cult city of Enlil. His temple was named Ekur, "House of the Mountain.
When Enlil was a young god, he was banished from Dilmun, home of the gods, to Kur, the underworld for raping a goddess named Ninlil.
(BTW, she ended up following him to Kur. Imagine that?)
After fathering four children, Enlil was allowed to return to Dilmun.
According to the Sumerians, Enlil helped create the humans, but then got tired of their noise and tried to kill them all by sending a flood.
A mortal known as Utnapishtim survived the flood through the help of another god, Ea, and he was made immortal by Enlil after Enlil's initial fury.
(Source: https://religion.fandom.com/wiki/Enlil)
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