Ennugi was a Mesopotamian god associated with agriculture, especially irrigation, and with the underworld.
14 Facts About Ennugi
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Ennugi was a member of the court of Enlil, and appears in god lists alongside its other members, such as Ninimma and Kusu.
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Ennugi was worshiped in Nippur, where his temple Erabriri was most likely located.
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Ennugi is mentioned in a number of myths, including Atra-Hasis and the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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Ennugi was associated with irrigation, though he was not the only Mesopotamian god responsible for it.
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Ennugi could be called the "lord of dike and ditch" or the "lord of the field and ploughmen".
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Ennugi is mentioned in the text Lipit-Ishtar and the Plow as one of multiple deities partaking in fieldworks, the other ones being Ninurta, Lisin, Suen, Nuska and Ninamaskuga.
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An incantation states that Ennugi was the creator of grubs.
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Andrew R George notes that both in the god list An = Anum and in the Canonical Temple List, Ennugi appears alongside other courtiers of Enlil, after Ninimma and before Kusu, Ninsar, Ninkasi and Ninmada.
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Jeremy Black and Anthony Green proposed that Ennugi might have been considered analogous to Gugalanna, the husband of Ereshkigal, because the latter's name can be translated as "canal inspector of An".
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However, the use of the similar epithet gugallu to refer to Ennugi might be a scribal error.
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Marcos Such-Gutierrez additionally notes a single theophoric name invoking Ennugi, Ur-Ennugi, is already present in a text from Adab from the Old Akkadian period.
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The temple of Mandanu in Babylon bore the same name, possibly due to him fulfilling an analogous position in the court of Marduk as Ennugi did in Enlil's.
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Ennugi appears in the standard edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh as one of the gods who take on oath while they decide to cause the great flood.