Editing Enlil (section)

===Ninurta myths===
[[File:Chaos Monster and Sun God.png|thumb|[[Ninurta]] with his thunderbolts pursues [[Anzû]], who has stolen the [[Tablet of Destinies (mythic item)|Tablet of Destinies]] from Enlil's sanctuary ([[Austen Henry Layard]] ''Monuments of Nineveh'', 2nd Series, 1853)]]

In the Sumerian poem ''Lugale'' (ETCSL [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.6.2# 1.6.2]), Enlil gives advice to his son, the god [[Ninurta]], advising him on a strategy to slay the [[utukku|demon]] [[Asag]].{{snf|Penglase|1994|page=68}} This advice is relayed to Ninurta by way of [[Sharur (mythological weapon)|Sharur]], his enchanted talking mace, which had been sent by Ninurta to the [[Dilmun|realm of the gods]] to seek counsel from Enlil directly.{{snf|Penglase|1994|page=68}}

In the Old, Middle, and Late Babylonian myth of ''Anzû and the Tablet of Destinies'', the [[Anzû]], a giant, monstrous bird,{{snf|Leick|1991|page=9}} betrays Enlil and steals the [[Tablet of Destinies (mythic item)|Tablet of Destinies]],{{snf|Leick|1991|pages=9–10}} a sacred clay tablet belonging to Enlil that grants him his authority,{{snf|Black|Green|1992|page=173}} while Enlil is preparing for a bath.{{snf|Leick|1991|page=10}} The rivers dry up and the gods are stripped of their powers.{{snf|Leick|1991|page=10}} The gods send [[Adad]], [[Girra]], and [[Shara (god)|Shara]] to defeat the Anzû,{{snf|Leick|1991|page=10}} but all of them fail.{{snf|Leick|1991|page=10}} Finally, Ea proposes that the gods should send Ninurta, Enlil's son.{{snf|Leick|1991|page=10}} Ninurta successfully defeats the Anzû and returns the Tablet of Destinies to his father.{{snf|Leick|1991|page=10}} As a reward, Ninurta is granted a prominent seat on the council of the gods.{{snf|Leick|1991|page=10}}