Enki and Ninmah, Paris — Marble cylinder seal, depicting the god of the abyss of fresh water and of wisdom, Enki / Ea, with a heroic figure behin
Text · Sumerian · Paris

Enki and Ninmah

In a Sumerian myth, a goddess makes six imperfect humans from clay. Zecharia Sitchin read failed experiments.

c. Old Babylonian copies (early 2nd mill. BCE)

Four thousand years ago, Sumerians wrote that humans were made to do the gods' labour. Where does that idea come from?

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