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

This links Enki to the Kur or underworld of Sumerian mythology.

According to Sumerian mythology, Enki also assisted humanity to survive the Deluge designed to kill them.

Stephenson's breakthrough came in 1992 with Snow Crash, a novel in the late cyberpunk or post-cyberpunk tradition fusing memetics, computer viruses, and other high-tech themes with Sumerian mythology, along with a sociological extrapolation of laissez-faire capitalism and collectivism.

* Nanna or Sin ( mythology ), god of the moon in Sumerian mythology, also called Suen

Unique types of maces known as " Gada " were used extensively in ancient Indian warfare, and the enchanted talking mace Sharur made its first appearance in Sumerian / Akkadian mythology during the epic of Ninurta.

In Sumerian mythology, Ninhursag ( NIN. ḪURSAG ) or Ninkharsag was the mountain and mother goddess, one of the seven great deities of Sumer.

Xisuthros, the " Chaldean Noah " in Sumerian mythology, is said by Berossus to have buried the records of the antediluvian world here — possibly because the name of Sippar was supposed to be connected with sipru, " a writing ".

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In Sumerian mythology, Nammu ( also Namma, spelled ideographically < sup > d </ sup > NAMMA = < sup > d </ sup > ENGUR ) was a primeval goddess, corresponding to Tiamat in Babylonian mythology.

Nammu is not well attested in Sumerian mythology.

is the Sun god in Sumerian mythology, the son of the moon god Nanna and the goddess Ningal.

The sun god is only modestly mentioned in Sumerian mythology with one of the notable exceptions being the Epic of Gilgamesh.

In Sumerian mythology, Amathaunta is the goddess of the ocean.

He believed this hypothetical planet of Nibiru to be in an elongated, elliptical orbit in the Earth's own Solar System, asserting that Sumerian mythology reflects this view.

Sea serpents feature prominently in the mythology of the Ancient Near East, attested as early as the 3rd millennium BCE in Sumerian iconography depicting the myth of the god Ninurta overcoming the seven-headed serpent.

* An ( Mesopotamian mythology ), a god in Sumerian and Babylonian mythology

* An ( Mesopotamian mythology ), a goddess in Sumerian mythology

Sargon has often been cited as the first ruler of a combined empire of Akkad and Sumer, although more recently discovered data suggests there had been Sumerian expansions under previous kings, including Lugal-Anne-Mundu of Adab, Eannatum of Lagash, and Lugal-Zage-Si.

By then, the Sumerian Peoples of south Mesopotamia were all organized into a variety of independent City-states, such as Ur and Uruk, which by around 26th century BC had begun to coalesce into larger political units.

Sculptures from the Sumerian and Akkadian period generally had large, staring eyes, and long beards on the men.

Although Habiru ( a Sumerian ideogram glossed as " brigand " in Akkadian ), and sometimes ( an Akkadian word ) had been reported in Mesopotamia from the reign of the Sumerian king, Shulgi of Ur III, their appearance in Canaan appears to have been due to the arrival of a new state based in Asia Minor to the north of Assyria based upon Maryannu aristocracy of horse drawn charioteers, associated with the Indo-Aryan rulers of the Hurrians, known as Mitanni.

The mutual influence between Sumerian and Akkadian had led scholars to describe the languages as a sprachbund.

In Sumerian, the single word kur had two meanings: ' hill ' and ' country '.

Ancient Greco-Roman, Celtic, Semitic, Norse, Chinese and Sumerian folklore all had a wealth of legendary beasts.

Diakonoff observes, " when we try to find out the morphophonological structure of the Sumerian language, we must constantly bear in mind that we are not dealing with a language directly but are reconstructing it from a very imperfect mnemonic writing system which had not been basically aimed at the rendering of morphophonemics.

More complex syllables, if Sumerian had them, are not expressed as such by the cuneiform script.

The Sumerian / Babylonian word " šár " was one of the ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement and as a number appears to have had a value of 3600.

Today several versions of the Sumerian death of Dumuzi have been recovered, " Inanna's Descent to the Underworld ", " Dumuzi's dream " and " Dumuzi and the galla ", as well as a tablet separately recounting Dumuzi's death, mourned by holy Inanna, and his noble sister Geštinanna, and even his dog and the lambs and kids in his fold ; Dumuzi himself is weeping at the hard fate in store for him, after he had walked among men, and the cruel galla of the Underworld seize him.

Her temple, the Esagila ( from Sumerian E ( temple ) + SAG ( head ) + ILA ( lofty )) was located on the KUR of Eridu, although she also had a temple at Kish.

Whilst the full number of gods and goddesses found in Mesopotamia is not known, K. Tallqvist, in his Akkadische Götterepitheta ( 1938 ) counted around two thousand four hundred that we now know about, most of which had Sumerian names.

The bent axis approach is an innovation from the Ubaid temples which had a linear axis approach, and is also a feature of Sumerian houses.

The Uruk period culture exported by Sumerian traders and colonists had an effect on all surrounding peoples, who gradually evolved their own comparable, competing economies and cultures.

While earlier scholars such as Jerome ( 4th century ) had identified Erech with the Syrian city of Edessa ( now within Turkey ), the modern consensus is that it refers to the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, in south Mesopotamia.

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.

Although very long spears had been used since the dawn of organized warfare ( notably illustrated in art showing Sumerian and Minoan warriors and hunters ), the earliest recorded use of a pike-like weapon in the tactical method described above involved the Macedonian sarissa, used by the troops of Alexander the Great's father, Philip II of Macedon, and successive dynasties, which dominated warfare for several centuries in many countries.

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

By the time of the last days of the Sumerian Ur III empire, immigrating Amorites had become such a force that kings such as Shu-Sin were obliged to construct a long wall from the Tigris to the Euphrates to hold them off.

The Babylonian number system had a base of sixty, inherited from the Sumerian and Akkadian civilizations, and possibly motivated by the large number of divisors which 60 has.

This edition had pared-down content in comparison to the original ; the sections on Babylonian, Finnish, Sumerian and non-humanoid deities were wholly excised.

Although " lamassu " had a different iconography and portrayal in Sumerian culture, the terms lamassu, alad, and shedu were used to denote the Assyrian-winged-man-bull symbol and statues during the Neo-Assyrian empire.