Enki (Ea)
Enki
5
DEITY · Mind
PWR6
Rare
GRD5
The freshwater god of wisdom, magic, and the 'me' (the divine decrees); his great temple was at Eridu (the oldest city in Sumerian tradition). In the Atrahasis and the Gilgamesh flood-story, he saves the flood-hero against Enlil's will.[S1] [S2] [S3] [S5] [S6]
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'Enki' (Sumerian; 'Ea' in Akkadian) is the freshwater god of wisdom, magic, and the 'me' (the divine decrees) [S5][S6]. His great temple was at Eridu (the 'Aabzu' — the 'house of the deep'), the oldest city in Sumerian tradition [S5][S6]. Enki is the god of wisdom, magic, and the 'me' — the divine decrees that order the world [S5]. He is the 'apku' (the sage), the patron of the scribes and the craftsmen [S5]. In the Atrahasis and the Gilgamesh flood-story, Enki (Ea) saves the flood-hero (Atrahasis/Utnapishtim) against Enlil's will, by whispering to the hero to build a boat [S2][S3]. Enki is the father of Nabu (the god of writing) [S5]. Enki's 'slanding' of Apsu (in the Atrahasis) is the creation-of-humanity story [S3].
the fresh waterthe 'me' (the divine decrees)the goat-fish (the 'adapa' fish, in some accounts)