CLAA05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enlil And Ninlil, Ninlil, Ninhursag
19 Feb 2018
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The birth of man (enki and ninmah: nothing exists, minor gods doing all the work. Wept and called enki: need divine fluids to make mankind, namma asked enki to make mankind. The birth of man pt 2: enki created blind man. Man with both feet, but were paralyzed. One who could not hold back urine. Heliopolitan creation mtyh: geb (earth, shu (atmosphere, nut (sky, nun (endless waters) Ogdoad 8 in primeval waters: nun and nunet (primeval water, formless, heh and hehet (the flood, keku and keket (darkness, tenem and tenemet (chaos, amun and amunet (invisisbility) Elephantine-khnum: ram headed god, controlled waters of inundation, made people from potters wheel and souls from clay. Book of heavenly cow: theme: sun god re is compassionate toward mankind, how the universe came to be with sun moon and stars. Lecture 3: mesopotamian creation myths: egyptian creation and destruction.
