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Enki and Enlil
Enlil, along with Anu / An, Enki and Ninhursag were gods of the Sumerians.
Enlil is angry his will has been thwarted yet again, and Enki is named as the culprit.
She tells her servant Ninshubur ( Lady Evening ), a reference to Inanna's role as the evening star, that if she does not return in three days, to get help from her father Anu, Enlil, king of the gods, or Enki.
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 ).
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.
In later Babylonian myth Kur is possibly an Anunnaki, brother of Ereshkigal, Enki, and Enlil.
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.
Following the Cleromancy ( casting of lots ), sky is ruled by Anu, earth by Enlil, and the freshwater sea by Enki.
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.
Tablet III of Atrahasis tells how the god Enki warns the hero Atrahasis (“ Extremely Wise ”) of Shuruppak, speaking through a reed wall ( suggestive of an oracle ) to dismantle his house ( perhaps to provide a construction site ) and build a boat to escape the flood planned by the god Enlil to destroy humankind.
Enlil is furious with Enki for violating his oath.
But Enki denies violating his oath and argues: “ I made sure life was preserved .” Enki and Enlil agree on other means for controlling the human population.
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.

Enki and is
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.
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.

Enki and gods
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.
In another even older tradition, Nammu, the goddess of the primeval creative matter and the mother-goddess portrayed as having " given birth to the great gods ," was the mother of Enki, and as the watery creative force, was said to preexist Ea-Enki.
His mother Nammu ( creatrix also of Abzu and Tiamat ) " brings the tears of the gods " before Enki and says
Eventually, after cooling her anger, she too seeks the help of Enki, as spokesperson of the " assembly of the gods ", the Igigi and the Anunnaki.
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.
This is described in the poem, " Enki and the World Order " which also details how he parcels out responsibility for various crafts and natural phenomena to the lesser gods.
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.

Enki and humanity
According to Sumerian mythology, Enki also assisted humanity to survive the Deluge designed to kill them.
He successively sends drought, famine and plague to eliminate humanity, but Enki thwarts his half-brother's plans by teaching Atrahasis how to counter these threats.

Enki and does
Enki does not tell Atrahasis directly, but speaks to him in secret via a reed wall.
Enki does his best to placate her by pointing out those she does in fact possess.

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