Introduction
Ninlil is the goddess of air and grain, wife of Enlil and mother of several important gods, most notably the moon god Nanna (Sin).
Family
Consort of the Storm God
A well-known Sumerian myth recounts Enlil's pursuit and union with the young Ninlil at the Ekur temple, an episode with morally ambiguous overtones in the original text but treated in later tradition simply as the establishment of the divine couple whose children — including Nanna/Sin, and in some versions Nergal and Ninurta as well — populate much of the rest of the Mesopotamian pantheon's younger generation.
Mesopotamian religion spans Sumerian, Akkadian, and Babylonian sources composed and recopied across nearly three thousand years, so names, genealogies, and even a deity's role often shift between traditions (Sumerian An/Enki/Inanna alongside their Akkadian/Babylonian forms Anu/Ea/Ishtar); the account above follows the most widely attested version, usually as consolidated in the Babylonian Enuma Elish or the standard Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh.