Enki () or Enkil ( Sumerian: ) is a god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.

The main temple to Enki is called E-abzu, meaning " abzu temple " ( also E-en-gur-a, meaning " house of the subterranean waters ""), a ziggurat temple surrounded by Euphratean marshlands near the ancient Persian Gulf coastline at Eridu.

Benito states " With Enki it is an interesting change of gender symbolism, the fertilising agent is also water, Sumerian " a " or " Ab " which also means " semen ".

In the epic Enki and Ninhursag, Enki, as lord of Ab or fresh water ( also the Sumerian word for semen ), is living with his wife in the paradise of Dilmun where

:: The place, after Enki is clean, that place is bright "

With his two-faced servant and steward Isimud, " Enki, in the swampland, in the swampland lies stretched out, ' What is this ( plant ), what is this ( plant ).

This is also the title given in the Bible to Eve, the Hebrew Khavvah ( חוה ), the Aramaic Hawwah, who was made from the rib of Adam, in a strange reflection of the Sumerian myth, in which Adam — not Enki — walks in the Garden of Paradise.

Enki, who might have otherwise come to their aid, is lying in a deep sleep and fails to hear their cries.

Enlil is angry his will has been thwarted yet again, and Enki is named as the culprit.

Enki explains that Enlil is unfair to punish the guiltless, and the gods institute measures to ensure that humanity does not become too populous in the future.

The myth Enki and Inanna tells the story of the young goddess of the É-anna temple of Uruk, who visits the senior god of Eridu, and is entertained by him in a feast.

After she presents her case, Enki sees that justice needs to be done and promises help, delivering knowledge of where the miscreant is hiding.

As Ea, Enki had a wide influence outside of Sumer, being equated with El ( at Ugarit ) and possibly Yah ( at Ebla ) in the Canaanite ' ilhm pantheon, he is also found in Hurrian and Hittite mythology, as a god of contracts, and is particularly favourable to humankind.

Enki / Ea is essentially a god of civilization, wisdom, and culture.

In one litany Ishkur is proclaimed again and again as " great radiant bull, your name is heaven " and also called son of An, lord of Karkara ; twin-brother of Enki, lord of abundance, lord who rides the storm, lion of heaven.

The god Enki ( lord of the underworld sea of fresh water and Sumerian equivalent of Babylonian god Ea ) warns Ziusudra, the ruler of Shuruppak, to build a large boat ; the passage describing the directions for the boat is also lost.

Enki Bilal ( born October 7, 1951 ) is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director.

According to the Neo-Sumerian mythological text Enki and Ninmah, Enki is the son of An and Nammu.

Upset about Enki's reputation, Uttu consults Ninhursag, who, upset at the promiscuous wayward nature of her spouse, advises Uttu to avoid the riverbanks, the places likely to be affected by flooding, the home of Enki.

The Gods gather again in terror and turn to Enki for help, but Enki who harnessed Abzu, Tiamat's consort, for irrigation refuses to get involved.

Enki then pursued Uttu, who was upset because he didn't care for her.

He was also regarded as the son of Ea ( Sumerian Enki ) and Damkina and the heir of Anu, but whatever special traits Marduk may have had were overshadowed by the political development through which the Euphrates valley passed and which led to people of the time imbuing him with traits belonging to gods who in an earlier period were recognized as the heads of the pantheon.

It is she who has the idea of creating mankind, and she goes to wake up Enki, who is asleep in the Apsu, so that he may set the process going.

Sitchin wrote that Enki suggested that to relieve the Anunnaki, who had mutinied over their dissatisfaction with their working conditions, that primitive workers ( Homo sapiens ) be created by genetic engineering as slaves to replace them in the gold mines by crossing extraterrestrial genes with those of Homo erectus.

Humbaba was the guardian of the Cedar Forest, where the gods lived, by the will of the god Enlil, who “ assigned as a terror to human beings .” He is the brother of Pazuzu and Enki and son of Hanbi.

A commercial failure but artistic success came along in 1977, when Delporte created the more adult supplement Le Trombone Illustré, which appeared inside Spirou for thirty weeks, and showcased new artists like Didier Comès, Enki Bilal, Claire Bretécher, F ' murr, Grzegorz Rosinski, and Frédéric Jannin, next to more established authors like René Hausman, Peyo, Roba, Marcel Gotlieb, and Franquin, who started his third major series, Idées Noires.

The novels focus on several characters other than Yoko, including Taiki, a timid rare black kirin who serves the ruler of Tai, and Enki and Shouryuu, the kirin and King of En, respectively.

The mes were originally collected by Enlil and then handed over to the guardianship of Enki who was to broker them out to the various Sumerian centers beginning with his own city of Eridu and continuing with Ur, Meluhha, and Dilmun.

Instead of punishing the rebels, Enki, who is also the kind, wise counselor of the gods, suggested that humans be created to do the work.

Adapa was a mortal from a godly lineage, a son of Ea ( Enki in Sumerian ), the god of wisdom and of the ancient city of Eridu, who brought the arts of civilization to that city ( from Dilmun, according to some versions ).

The Mesopotamian god of wisdom, Ea ( Enki ) is shown in the male procession and the god Teshub was a Hurrian god who was syncretized with the Hittite storm-god.

His grandson Enki, chosen to represent the younger gods, puts a spell on Abzu " casting him into a deep sleep ", thereby confining him deep underground.

Enki and later Ea were apparently depicted, sometimes, like Adapa, as a man covered with the skin of a fish, and this representation, as likewise the name of his temple E-apsu, " house of the watery deep ", points decidedly to his original character as a god of the waters ( see Oannes ).

Enlil, along with Anu / An, Enki and Ninhursag were gods of the Sumerians.

In one evocative passage in a Sumerian hymn, Enki stands at the empty riverbeds and fills them with his ' water '".

Not knowing her to be his daughter, and because she reminds him of his absent consort, Enki then seduces and has intercourse with her.

As Enki lacks a womb with which to give birth, he seems to be dying with swellings.

Against Enki's wish the Gods decide to slay Kingu, and Enki finally consents to use Kingu's blood to make the first human, with whom Enki always later has a close relationship, the first of the seven sages, seven wise men or " Abgallu " (* Ab

In his connections with Inanna, Enki shows other aspects of his non-Patriarchal nature.

The seductive god plies her with beer, and the young goddess maintains her virtue, whilst Enki proceeds to get drunk.

Enki realises that he has been tricked in his hubris and accepts a peace treaty forever with Uruk.

Enki was considered a god of life and replenishment, and was often depicted with two streams of water emanating from his shoulders, one the Tigris, the other the Euphrates.

The word also appears in Sumerian texts ; for instance, in the lost book, when Enki tells his master scribe ( Edubsar ) to write down all that he says, the text mentions a stylus of electrum with a crystal at the tip that glowed.

These devotees were often from a particular city or city-state that held that deity as its patron deity, for instance the god Enki was often associated with the city of Eridu, and the god Marduk was associated with Babylon.

Among the interesting features of this version of the flood myth, are the identification, through interpretatio graeca, of the Sumerian god Enki with the Greek god Cronus, the father of Zeus ; and the assertion that the reed boat constructed by Xisuthros survived, at least until Berossus ' day, in the " Corcyrean Mountains " of Armenia.

In the myth recorded on cuneiform tablets, the deity Enki ( later Ea ) believed correctly that Apsu, upset with the chaos they created, was planning to murder the younger deities ; and so captured him, holding him prisoner beneath is temple the E-Abzu.

Cohen and Kangas suggest that the tree is probably associated with the Sumerian god of male fertility, Enki and that for both Osiris and Enki, an erect pole or polelike symbol stands beneath a celestial symbol.