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

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

The Sumerian god Enki was later also adopted by the Akkadians, initially under his original name, and later as Éa.

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.

In later Babylonian myth Kur is possibly an Anunnaki, brother of Ereshkigal, Enki, and Enlil.

* Enki ( / ˈɛŋki /) or Enkil ( Sumerian: dEN. KI ( G ) ) is a god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.

She first appears as a consort of Enlil in Sumerian mythology, and later becomes the Akkadian Damkina, consort of Enki / Ea and mother of the god Marduk.

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.

( 1981 ), Der Gott Ea / Enki in der akkadischen Überlieferung ( Graz ).

In Mesopotamian religion and mythology, Enki, also known as Ea, was the God of wisdom and intelligence.

Inanna's faithful servant attempted to get help from the other gods but only wise Enki / Ea responded.

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.

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.

* Ea ( Babylonian god ) or Enki, a water deity

* Other noteworthy mermen were the Babylonian Oannes and Ea, and the Sumerian Enki.

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.

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

The early inscriptions of Urukagina in fact go so far as to suggest that the divine pair, Enki and Ninki, were the progenators of seven pairs of gods, including Enki as god of Eridu, Enlil of Nippur, and Su ' en ( or Sin ) of Ur, and were themselves the children of An ( sky, heaven ) and Ki ( earth ).

Generally, however, Enki seems to be a reflection of pre-patriarchal times, in which relations between the sexes were characterised by a situation of greater gender equality.

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.

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.

Tablet I contains a creation myth about the Sumerian gods Anu, Enlil, and Enki, gods of sky, wind, and water, “ when gods were in the ways of men ” according to its incipit.

In this epic Enlil is depicted as a nasty capricious god while Enki is depicted as a kind helpful god, perhaps because priests of Enki were writing and copying the story.

Major comics writers like René Goscinny, Jean-Michel Charlier, Greg, Pierre Christin and Jacques Lob were featured in the magazine, as were artists such as Jijé, Morris, Albert Uderzo, Jean ( Mœbius ) Giraud, Enki Bilal, Jean-Claude Mézières, Jacques Tardi, Philippe Druillet, Marcel Gotlib, Alexis, and Annie Goetzinger.

A number of successful French works were published, including Bouncer, Les Terres creuses, Metabarons, The Nikopol Trilogy, Technopriests, Le Lama blanc, along with works by Pierre Christin and Enki Bilal, XXe ciel. com, The Incal, Olivier Varèse, Exterminator 17, Yves Chaland, etc .).

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.

Enki, the Water-Lord then " caused to flow the ' water of the heart " and having fertilised his consort Ninhursag, also known as Ki or Earth, after " Nine days being her nine months, the months of ' womanhood '... like good butter, Nintu, the mother of the land, ... like good butter, gave birth to Ninsar, ( Lady Greenery )".

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 boat is to have a roof “ like Apsu ” ( a subterranean, fresh water realm presided over by the god Enki ), upper and lower decks, and to be sealed with bitumen.

Eminent writers and thinkers like Adavi Bapiraju, Sri Sri, Chalam, Devulapalli Krishna Sastry adored ' Enki Paatalu '.

The Sumerians claimed that their civilization had been brought, fully formed, to the city of Eridu by their god Enki or by his advisor ( or Abgallu from ab = water, gal = big, lu = man ), Adapa U-an ( the Oannes of Berossus ).

Enki, the god of Eridu, or his mortal son Adapa, are said to have brought civilization to Sumer at this point, or just shortly before.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.