Nippur, Administrative Center of Enlil

This was the city dedicated to Enlil and where he ruled from his Ekut or “house on the mountain.” At Nippur, Enlil exercised supreme command over all the Anunnaki on Earth before the Deluge. One of the hymns dedicated to him provides a graphic description of a control center bristling with communications and other electronic equipment scanning the horizons. From the Ekur, it was said that Enlil’s “eye scans the land” and “his lifted beam searches the heart of all the lands.”

(Nippur Photos)

Eye of Enlil

Nippur was rebuilt after the Deluge as his sacred city. It is also the city where, according to the “Third Book of Enoch” that the Lord kept his “Shekinah” or space craft, at the entrance of the Garden of Eden until the days of Enoch when he abruptly left for his heavenly abode, never to return except on…