According to Sumer cosmogonic myths, initial elements of the world was the water chaos (Apsu) teeming with monsters. In its bowels has arisen earth as huge mountain which top the god of sky Anu represented with a horned tiara on a head was. Flat basis of the mountain was thought as the goddess of the earth Ki. At the sky and the grounds began to be born children - gods, major of which is Enlil (Ellil) - "mister", Sumerian storm-god. He has divided the sky and the earth and became an actual Supreme deity of Sumer and Akkad. Enlil's children were Sin (Nannar) - the god of the moon, Shamash (Utu) - the god of the sun, Ninurta - the god of war, Nergal - the underworld deity having pernicious functions.