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Enki and Ninmah as a narrative can be separated into two distinct parts, the first being the birth of mankind, and the second a competition between the two spouses. The first half of this text recounts Enki creating the first humans at the behest of Namma, referred to here as his mother. [58]
Šassūrātu appear as assistants of Ninmah in the myth Enki and Ninmah. [14] In this text, their names are given as Ninimma, Šuzianna, Ninmada, Ninšar, Ninmug, Mumudu and Ninnigina. [4] Wilfred G. Lambert established that these seven goddesses do not occur as a group anywhere else, and that at least six of them are attested in other sources ...
In the myth Enki and Ninmah, Ninšar appears as one of the seven assistants of the eponymous goddess, the other six being Ninimma, Shuzianna, Ninmug, Ninmada, Mumudu and Ninniginna. [16] They do not appear together otherwise. [2] However, in this myth they are collectively described as Šassūrātu, a term used to collectively refer to Ninmah's ...
The Sumerians decided that such a catastrophic event could only be explained through divine intervention and wrote in the lament that the gods, "An, Enlil, Enki and Ninmah decided [Ur's] fate" [4] The literary works of the Sumerians were widely translated (e.g., by the Hittites , Hurrians and Canaanites ).
[256] Enki, the ancestor of Enlil, is not to be confused with the god Enki/Ea, who is a distinct and unrelated figure. [257] The ancestral Enki's name means "lord earth," while the meaning of the name of the god of Eridu is uncertain but not the same, as indicated by some writings including an amissable g. [257] Enmesharra
The Sumerian myth of Enki and Ninmah (Ninhursag) states that humans were fashioned from clay to serve the gods (see Enki and the Making of Man). Of note, the creation of humans is portrayed as a contest between Enki and Ninhursag, who take turns finding correct places in society for the newly created humans.
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The term "ancestors of Enlil" refers to a group of Mesopotamian deities. [2] They are already attested in Early Dynastic sources. [5] The same group is sometimes instead referred to as "Enki-Ninki deities" (German: Enki-Ninki-Gottheiten), an approximate translation of the plural (d) En-ki-(e-)ne-(d) Nin/Nun-ki-(e-)ne, derived from the names of the pair Enki and Ninki, and used to refer to all ...