In his book Greek Religion, Walter Burkert notes the connection with the motif of far-off Dilmun: " Thus Achilles is transported to the White Isle, which may refer to Mount Teide on Tenerife, whose volcano is often snowcapped and as the island was sometimes called the white isle by explorers, and becomes the Ruler of the Black Sea, and Diomedes becomes the divine lord of an Adriatic island ".

Dilmun is also described in the epic story of Enki and Ninhursag as the site at which the Creation occurred.

However, in the early epic " Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta ", the main events, which center on Enmerkar's construction of the ziggurats in Uruk and Eridu, are described as taking place in a world " before Dilmun had yet been settled ".

::" The land of Dilmun is a pure place, the land of Dilmun is a clean place,

:: The land of Dilmun is a clean place, the land of Dilmun is a bright place ;

The Epic of Ziusudra adds an element at lines 258 – 261 not found in other versions, that after the river flood " king Ziusudra ... they caused to dwell in the land of the country of Dilmun, the place where the sun rises ".

Thorkild Jacobsen's translation of the Eridu Genesis calls it " Mount Dilmun " which he locates as a " faraway, half-mythical place ".

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

Sumerian mythology had a parallel to the Eden garden in Dilmun, the dwelling-place of the immortals where sickness and death were unknown.

Meanwhile, Esarhaddon was waging war in the land of Bazu, situated opposite of the island of " Dilmun " ( Bahrain ), probably Qatar, " where snakes and scorpions cover the ground like ants "-a dry land of salt deserts.

Dilmun, furthermore, is said to lie " in the east where the sun rises ," a situation that does not apply to the eastern Arabian littoral, Failaka or Bahrain, all of which lie south of Sumer and Eridu.

The " mouth of the rivers " where Dilmun was said to lie is for her the union of the Tigris and Euphrates at Qurnah.

Some of the earliest records of the use of the foot come from the Persian Gulf bordered by India ( Meluhha ), Pakistan, Balochistan, Oman ( Makkan ), Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain ( Dilmun ), the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia where in Persian architecture it is a sub division of the Great circle of the earth into 360 degrees.

This characteristic is especially true of the region of Bahrain, whose name in Arabic means " two seas ", and which is thought to be the site of Dilmun, the original site of the Sumerian creation beliefs.

Sargon is even recorded as having organised naval expeditions to Dilmun ( Bahrein ) and Magan, amongst the first organised military naval expeditions in history.

:: He who is alone laid himself down in Dilmun,

It is believed to be the outermost point of the ancient civilization of Dilmun, which was centered in what is present-day Bahrain.

The earliest mentioning of Dilmun is Mesopotamian sources was in the Early Dynastic III Period, when Ur-Nanshe ( circa 2520 BC ) proclaimed that ;

However, the exact location of Dilmun is unclear, it might be associated with the islands of Bahrain, Eastern Province, Qatar and nearby Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf.

After another break, the text resumes, the flood is apparently over, and Ziusudra is prostrating himself before An ( Sky ) and Enlil ( Lordbreath ), who give him " breath eternal " and take him to dwell in Dilmun.

Dilmun is usually identified as Bahrain, an island in the Persian Gulf on the east side of the Arabian peninsula.

Dilmun or Telmun ( Arabic: دلمون ) is a land mentioned by Mesopotamian civilizations as a trade partner, a source of the metal copper, and an entrepôt of the Mesopotamia-to-Indus Valley Civilization trade route.

Although the exact location of Dilmun is unclear, it might be associated with the islands of Bahrain, the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and nearby Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf.

It is also noted that Gilgamesh had to pass through Mount Mashu to reach Dilmun in the Epic of Gilgamesh, which is usually identified with the whole of the parallel Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges, with the narrow gap between these mountains constituting the tunnel.

Archaeology, however, revealed some early settled cultures: the Dilmun on the Persian Gulf, and Thamud north of the Hejaz.

Muharraq's origins are ancient, going back to the time of Dilmun some 5, 000 years ago, but it came to prominence in the historical records during the era of Tylos when Bahrain came under domination of the Selucid Greeks, and Muharraq was the centre of a pagan cult dedicated to the shark god, Awal.

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 ).

Rich of various periods, have been discovered to have sought burial in Bahrein, identified with Sumerian Dilmun.

Dilmun appears first in Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets dated to the late third millennium BC, found in the temple of goddess Inanna, in the city of Uruk.

Ninlil, the Sumerian goddess of air and south wind had her home in Dilmun.

Sumerian texts repeatedly refer to three important centers with which they traded: Magan, Dilmun, and Meluhha.

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.

The myth of Enlil and Ninlil discusses when Enlil was a young god, he was banished from Dilmun, home of the gods, to Kur, the underworld for raping a goddess named Ninlil.

After fathering three more underworld-deities ( substitutes for Sin ), Enlil was allowed to return to Dilmun.

As of 2008, archaeologists have failed to find a site in existence during the time from 3300 BC ( Uruk IV ) to 556 BC ( Neo-Babylonian Era ), when Dilmun ( Telmun ) appears in texts.

Dilmun was a trade distribution center for goods originating that might be in islands of Bahrain, Eastern Province ( Saudi Arabia ), Oman, or the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf.

The Persian-Gulf style of circular stamped rather than rolled seals, also known from Dilmun, that appear at Lothal in Gujarat, India, and Failaka Island ( Kuwait ), as well as in Mesopotamia, are convincing corroboration of the long-distance sea trade.

The shallow basin that now underlies the Gulf was an extensive region of river valley and wetlands during the transition between the end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the start of the Holocene, which, according to University of Birmingham archaeologist Jeffrey Rose, served as an environmental refuge for early humans during periodic hyperarid climate oscillations, laying the foundations for the legend of Dilmun

During the end of the fourth millennium BC, the southern part of the Persian Gulf was dominated by the Dilmun civilization.

The Qatar Peninsula was close enough to the Dilmun civilization ( ca.

Dilmun was mentioned in two letters dated to the reign of Burnaburiash ( c. 1370 BC ) recovered from Nippur, during the Kassite dynasty of Babylon.

Neo-Babylonian administrative records, dated 567 BC, stated that Dilmun was controlled by the king of Babylon.