It's from a little known work called "Enki's journey to Nibru"
Thats nibru the sumerian noun which means "crossing place" and not the "Nibiru" mentioned by Sitchen that he thinks is a planet on a 3600 year eliptical orbit


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In the shrine of Nibru, Enki provided a meal for Enlil, his father. He seated An at the head of the table and seated Enlil next to An. He seated Nintur in the place of honour and seated the Anuna gods at the adjacent places (?). All of them were drinking and enjoying beer and liquor. They filled the bronze aga vessels to the brim and started a competition, drinking from the bronze vessels of Uraš. They made the tilimda vessels shine like holy barges. After beer and liquor had been libated and enjoyed, and after …… from the house, Enlil was made happy in Nibru.

Enlil addressed the Anuna gods: "Great gods who are standing here! Anuna, who have lined up in the Ubšu-unkena! My son, king Enki, has built up the temple! He has made Eridug {rise up (?)} {(1 ms. has instead come out} from the ground like a mountain! He has built it in a pleasant place, in Eridug, the pure place, where no one is to enter -- a temple built with silver and decorated with lapis lazuli, a house which tunes the seven tigi drums properly, and provides incantations; where holy songs make all of the house a lovely place -- the shrine of the abzu, the good destiny of Enki, befitting the elaborate divine powers; the temple of Eridug, built with silver: for all this, father Enki be praised!"


So you have Enki and Enlil referring to each other as Father and Son.
Seems they might have indeed been brother gods to the rest of their society, but that doesn't preclude the possibility that one is the child of another.

I have been translating Enlil as "lord of the Air" and king for quite a while
I have recently been translating Enki as "lord of the earth" and Prince and it makes a lot of sense and fits the general aspects of the stories much better. After all from an ageless picture brothers would look pretty similar to father and son.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/27/2005 11:59AM by marduk.