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Enki
God of sweet water, craft and cunning, housed in the E-abzu at Eridug, and the one who finds the way around a law he cannot break.
- Akkadian:
- Ea
- Epithets:
- the wise one of Eridug; lord of the Abzu; the one who finds the way around a law he cannot break.
- Kin:
- son of An (or of Nammu, the primeval sea, in another line); brother of Enlil.
In the myths:
god of sweet water, craft, and cunning, housed in the E-abzu at Eridug; in Inana's descent he is the third door and the only one that opens, answering with two creatures made from the dirt under his fingernails; in Inana and Enki he loses the ~100 me to her over drink, and they travel to Uruk.
Where they were worshipped
The city this power belonged to, and the periods our chronology places it in.
What the record has
Everything above is the myth as the texts and the scholarship have it, and the sources are listed so you can check us. The chronicle uses this figure; it does not add to them.
Sources
The pages this entry is drawn from. ORACC and ETCSL are the scholarly editions; the rest are general references.
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