>>7893832Who is Enki and what is his story?
Enki, the great prince of heaven, is one of the gods of the highest trio of the Anunnaki pantheon together with his father Anu and his half-brother Enlil. The Anunnaki, later known as the Elohim, were a group of heavenly deities whose deeds were documented in the historical records of the Sumerian civilization, one of the most ancient in history. The religious literature of the Sumerians precedes even the Hebrew Bible by several millennia, underlies the mythologies of various ancient cultures such as those of the Akkadians, the Babylonians, the western Semites and the Greeks and shares certain similarities with the more primeval varieties of the Indoeuropean spiritual current.
According to the Sumerian literature, Enki was a benevolent god who created Man in his image and likeness via his own divine DNA, taught his human offspring the knowledge of the gods and built the great primordial civilizations. Enki is the true ancestral Father of Mankind.
Enki, his Sumerian name, means 'Lord of the Earth' and his Mesopotamian epithets included Nudimmud (Maker), Ushumgal (Great Serpent) and Lord of the Abzu, the abyss of the primeval waters. Enki was a creator god, a teacher of divine wisdom represented by the symbol of the Serpent and a water deity. In Babylonia he was known as Ea, the noble prince of heavenly knowledge; in the ancient Egyptian culture he was worshiped as Ptah, the great maker god and lord of magic; and in Greek mythology he was identical to the benevolent titan Prometheus who enlightened Man, his own creation, with the Fire of the Gods.