ENLIL (lord wind?)

ORIGIN Mesopotamian (Sumerian) [Iraq]. God of the air.

KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 3500 BC or earlier to circa 1750 BC.

SYNONYMS ELLIL; Illil; Ilu; Nunamnir.

CENTER(S) OF CULT Nippur, Dur Kurigalzu, but also at Eridu and Ur.

Lilith

by Alan G. Hefner
A female demon of the night who supposedly flies around searching for newborn children either to kidnap or strangle them. Also, she sleeps with men to seduce them into propagating demon sons. Legends told about Lilith are ancient. The rabbinical myths of Lilith being Adam’s first wife seem to relate to the Sumero-Babylonian Goddess Belit-ili, or Belili. To the Canaanites, Lilith was Baalat, the “Divine Lady.” On a tablet from Ur, ca. 2000 BCE, she was addressed as Lillake.