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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 )".
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Enki and then
Not knowing her to be his daughter, and because she reminds him of his absent consort, Enki then seduces and has intercourse with her.
Ninsar then gave birth to Ninkurra ( Lady Fruitfulness or Lady Pasture ), and leaves Enki alone again.
Enki then advises that they create a servant of the Gods, humankind, out of clay and blood.
Enki then pursued Uttu, who was upset because he didn't care for her.
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.
Since then, in less than two decades, the company has developed one of the most respected graphic novel / comic book catalogues in the world, featuring authors such as Moebius, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Enki Bilal, Milo Manara and Juan Gimenez, and books from multiple genres.
The CD-rom format was then chosen, with Enki Bilal's The Nikopol Trilogy and Manara's Gulliveriana being published as part of the " Digital Comics " collection.
Enki and caused
Enki Catena is a chain of impact craters on Ganymede ( moon ) | Ganymede, caused by a fragmented space body ( probably a comet ).
Enki and water
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 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
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.
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.
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 ).
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 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
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.
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.
Enki and having
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.
Enki and consort
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.
Ningal (" Great Lady / Queen ") was a goddess of reeds in the Sumerian mythology, daughter of Enki and Ningikurga and the consort of the moon god Nanna by whom she bore Utu the sun god, Inanna, and in some texts, Ishkur.
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 Ninhursag
Enlil, along with Anu / An, Enki and Ninhursag were gods of the Sumerians.
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 Ninhursag
In the legend of Enki and Ninhursag, Ninhursag bore a daughter to Enki called Ninsar (" Lady Greenery ").
In creation texts, Ninmah ( another name for Ninhursag ) acts as a midwife whilst the mother goddess Nammu makes different kinds of human individuals from lumps of clay at a feast given by Enki to celebrate the creation of humankind.
Dilmun is also described in the epic story of Enki and Ninhursag as the site at which the Creation occurred.
The promise of Enki to Ninhursag, the Earth Mother:
Daughter of Ninhursag and Enki.
Enki and also
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.
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.
His mother Nammu ( creatrix also of Abzu and Tiamat ) " brings the tears of the gods " before Enki and says
According to Sumerian mythology, Enki also assisted humanity to survive the Deluge designed to kill them.
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.
In Mesopotamian religion and mythology, Enki, also known as Ea, was the God of wisdom and intelligence.
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.
The Sumerian god Enki was later also adopted by the Akkadians, initially under his original name, and later as Éa.
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.
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.
She is also one of the eight children created in order to heal one of the eight wounds that Enki receives.
The Black Order Brigade ( also published as The Ranks of the Black Order ) is a translation of Les Phalanges de l ' Ordre Noir ( in French ) a political thriller graphic novel written by Pierre Christin and illustrated by Enki Bilal and translated by Frank Wynne.
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