Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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 ...
This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 07:41 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
In Enki and Ninhursag, the goddess complains to Enki that the city of Dilmun is lacking in water. [82] As a result, Enki makes the land rich, and Dilmun becomes a prosperous wetland. [82] Afterwards, he and Ninhursag sleep together, resulting in a daughter, Ninsar [83] (called Ninnisig in the ETCSL translation, [84] Ninmu by Kramer [85]).
The story opens with a description of the city of Nippur, its walls, river, canals and well, portrayed as the home of the gods and, according to Kramer "that seems to be conceived as having existed before the creation of man."
The name comes from Enki and Ninki ("Lord and Lady Earth") being the first pair in all versions of the story. The only other consistent feature is that Enlil and Ninlil are the last pair. In each pair, one member is male (indicated by the En- prefix) and the other is female (indicated by the Nin- prefix).
The Enlil section, which follows the Anu one, begins with his ancestors, the so-called Enki-Ninki deities, [70] and includes his wife Ninlil, [65] primordial deities Lugaldukuga (explained as Enlil's father) and Enmesharra, [71] as well as various courtiers, among them the goddess of writing, Nisaba, and her husband Haia, Enlil's sukkal Nuska ...
Damgalnuna was the wife of Enki (Ea). [15] In the myth Enki and Ninhursag, she and the eponymous goddess are treated as the same deity. [16] However, Dina Katz points out that they were usually separate, and Ninhursag's husband was Šulpae. [17] Deities considered to be children of Enki and Damgalnuna include Nanshe, Asalluhi, Marduk and ...