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Enki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒂗𒆠 D EN-KI) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge , crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki. He was later known as Ea ( Akkadian : 𒀭𒂍𒀀 ) or Ae [ 5 ] in Akkadian ( Assyrian - Babylonian ) religion , and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion .
Akkadian cylinder seal dating to c. 2300 BCE depicting the deities Inanna, Enki, and Utu, three members of the Anunnaki. The Anunnaki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒀀𒉣𒈾, also transcribed as Anunaki, Annunaki, Anunna, Ananaki and other variations) are a group of deities of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians.
Enki does his best to placate her by pointing out those she does in fact possess. [ 2 ] There is no direct connection implied in the mythological cycle between this poem and that which is our main source of information on the me s, "Inanna and Enki: The Transfer of the Arts of Civilization from Eridu to Uruk ", but once again Inanna's ...
Enki was the divine benefactor of humanity, [74] who helped humans survive the Great Flood. [74] In Enki and the World Order, he organizes "in detail every feature of the civilised world." [74] In Inanna and Enki, he is described as the holder of the sacred mes, the tablets concerning all aspects of human life. [74] He was associated with ...
The epic of Atra-Hasis contains the myth of the creation of mankind by Enlil, Anu and Enki. The gods Enlil, Anu and Enki are also known as Anunnaki and Igigi, the superior and the inferior gods. They seem to have been united in an organization similar to that which existed in Greece between Zeus – as ‘pure spirit or air’ the leading party ...
The major deities in the Sumerian pantheon included An, the god of the heavens, Enlil, the god of wind and storm, AnKi Enki, the god of water and human culture, Ninhursag, the goddess of fertility and the earth, Utu, the god of the sun and justice, and his father Nanna, the god of the moon.
Zecharia Sitchin (July 11, 1920 – October 9, 2010) [1] was an author of a number of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts.Sitchin attributed the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he claimed was a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru.
Another source which presents Enlil as Anu's son is the myth Enki and the World Order, which also specifies that he was the older brother of Enki. [3] However, Enlil's parentage was variable. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The tradition in which his ancestors were the so-called Enki-Ninki deities is now considered conventional by Assyriologists, though materials ...