Hesiod - The Theogony

Feb 10, 2021

The Sumerian creation of man # The Akkadian creation myths of man reference ‘Enki and Ninma ‘, of a god who has been slain and whose blood had to be mixed with clay. In ‘Enki and Ninma ’ man is created in the womb of Mother Earth. The anthropology of the Sumerians, van Dijk writes that the relation between god and man is twofold. On the one side man is a slave of the god; on the other side there is a family’ ...