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Enkidu (Sumerian: ð’‚—ð’† ð’„ EN.KI.DU 10) [6] was a legendary figure in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, wartime comrade and friend of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk.Their exploits were composed in Sumerian poems and in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, written during the 2nd millennium BC.
The people of the Nazca culture created expansive geoglyphs, including a large depiction of a spider on the Nazca plain in southern Peru. The purpose or meaning of the so-called "Nazca lines" is still uncertain. [33] An adobe spider-god temple of the Cupisnique culture was discovered in the Lambayeque Region of Peru.
Shamhat's name has a double meaning, as while it is an ordinary given name derived from the adjective šamḫu, which designated qualities related to physical well-being, in the context of the epic it is also meant to resemble the word šamḫatu, a synonym of ḫarimtu. [48] Shamash: Shamash (Sumerian Utu) is the Mesopotamian sun god. [53]
Thorkild Jacobsen argued that Uttu was envisioned as a spider spinning a web. [5] However, the connection between Uttu and spiders, or more precisely between her name and the Akkadian word ettūtu ("spider"), is limited to a single text, and it might represent a "learned etymology" (scribal speculation), [3] a folk etymology [1] or simply rely on the terms being nearly homophonous. [6]
The exact meaning of Enki's name is uncertain: the common translation is "Lord of the Earth". The Sumerian En is translated as a title equivalent to "lord" and was originally a title given to the High Priest. Ki means "earth", but there are theories that ki in this name has another origin, possibly kig of unknown meaning, or kur meaning
It is possible that Enki's journey merely means to foreshadow that of Enkidu's later in the text. It could also be used as a device to demonstrate the ability for someone to travel to the Netherworld at the outset and foreshadow Enki's later role in helping Enkidu escape when he becomes stuck in that region. That even Enki encounters troubles ...
The Eabsû (house of the Apsû) was Enki's primary sanctuary. [28] He is the patron of the arts and techniques and may be considered the civilizing god and organizer of the world. He is the sovereign of the "Me" principle, which he maintains within his city of Eridu. In the myth of Inanna and Enki, Inanna appropriates a portion of these from ...
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 ...