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Enki promises to help and confines Abzu in irrigation canals and places him in the Kur, beneath his city of Eridu.
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After she presents her case, Enki sees that justice needs to be done and promises help, delivering knowledge of where the miscreant is hiding.
Enki and help
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 assembles a team of divinities to help him, creating a host of " good and princely fashioners ".
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.
Enki, as the protector of whomever comes to seek his help, and as the empowerer of Inanna, here challenges the young impetuous goddess to control her anger so as to be better able to function as a great judge.
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.
Enki and Abzu
Considered the master shaper of the world, god of wisdom and of all magic, Enki was characterized as the lord of the Abzu ( Apsu in Akkadian ), the freshwater sea or groundwater located within the earth.
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 subsequently sets up his home " in the depths of the Abzu.
" Enki thus takes on all of the functions of the Abzu, including his fertilising powers as lord of the waters and lord of semen.
His mother Nammu ( creatrix also of Abzu and Tiamat ) " brings the tears of the gods " before Enki and says
Samuel Noah Kramer, believes that behind this myth of Enki's confinement of Abzu lies an older one of the struggle between Enki and the Dragon Kur ( the underworld )
Her father was Enki, the lord Nudimmud, and her mother was Ninti, the queen of the Abzu.
Enki and irrigation
This seems also implicated in the epic of the hieros gamos or sacred marriage of Enki and Ninhursag ( above ), which seems an etiological myth of the fertilisation of the dry ground by the coming of irrigation water ( from Sumerian a, ab, water or semen ).
Enki and places
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.
Enki and him
Not knowing her to be his daughter, and because she reminds him of his absent consort, Enki then seduces and has intercourse with her.
He cuts it off for him and he ( Enki ) eats it ".
Enki does not tell Atrahasis directly, but speaks to him in secret via a reed wall.
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.
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.
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.
After a considerable amount of self-glorification on the part of Enki, his daughter Inanna comes before him with a complaint that she has been given short shrift on her divine spheres of influence.
The discovery of adult comics with the work of artists such as Enki Bilal and Moebius captivated him in 1978 and he started drawing comics for different fanzines and comics exhibiting at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1980.
Enki and Kur
This links Enki to the Kur or underworld of Sumerian mythology.
In later Babylonian myth Kur is possibly an Anunnaki, brother of Ereshkigal, Enki, and Enlil.
Enki and beneath
Enki immediately expresses concern and dispatches his Galla demons, Galaturra or Kurgarra, sexless beings created from the dirt from beneath the god's finger-nails, to recover the young goddess.
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.
Enki and city
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 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 ).
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.
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 ).
Enki and Eridu
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.
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 ).
* Eridu, E-Abzu, Enki
Hymns regarding the Sumerian god Enki of Eridu in Sumer speak of his assaulting and deflowering Dilmun's maidens as they stand by a river bank, he reaching out of nearby marsh to clasp them to his bosom.
One early inscription for an " Elulu ( or Elili ), king of Ur " was found at nearby Eridu, stating that this king had built up the abzu ziggurat for Enki.
There is no direct connection implied in the mythological cycle between this poem and that which is our main source of information on the mes, " Inanna and Enki: The Transfer of the Arts of Civilization from Eridu to Uruk ", but once again Inanna's discontent is a theme.
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.
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Enlil, along with Anu / An, Enki and Ninhursag were gods of the Sumerians.
Enki () or Enkil ( Sumerian: ) is a god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology.
A large number of myths about Enki have been collected from many sites, stretching from Southern Iraq to the Levantine coast.
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.
Nevertheless Dilmun had no water and Enki heard the cries of its Goddess, Ninsikil, and orders the sun-God Utu to bring fresh water from the Earth for Dilmun.
Ninsar then gave birth to Ninkurra ( Lady Fruitfulness or Lady Pasture ), and leaves Enki alone again.
A third time Enki succumbs to temptation, and attempts seduction of Uttu.
And so, despite warnings, Enki consumes the other seven fruit.
As Enki lacks a womb with which to give birth, he seems to be dying with swellings.
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.
Enki then advises that they create a servant of the Gods, humankind, out of clay and blood.
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.
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