[UA] Uh, what kind of gods are these again?

[James Knevitt]

On 8/22/06, Bastien Pilon <demiurge.gnosis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll have to do some checking, but there was a Sumerian god (Enki, I
> think) who created rivers through masturbation, so the tradition of
> moisture through divine spunk is pretty well established.

Yep, definitely Enki. This is a similar example of Enki's life-giving
groin power:

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki)

"Enki had a penchant for beer and a string of incestuous affairs. In
the epic Enki and Ninhursag, he and his consort Ninhursag had a
daughter Ninsar. When Ninhursag left him he came upon and then had
intercourse with Ninsar (Lady Greenery) who gave birth to Ninkurra
(Lady Fruitfulness or Lady Pasture). A second time, he had intercourse
with Ninkurra, who gave birth to Uttu, the spider, the one who
maintains interconnectedness of all with all. A third time Enki
succumbs to temptation. Upset about Enki's reputation, Uttu consults
Ninhursag, who, upset at the promiscuous nature of her spouse, advises
Uttu to avoid the riverbanks. Ninhursag takes Enki's semen and plants
it in the earth where six or eight plants rapidly germinate. With his
two-faced servant and steward Isimud, Enki finds the plants and
immediately starts consuming their fruit. Unaccountably he falls ill
in his jaw, his teeth, his mouth, his throat, his limbs and his rib.
The Gods are at a loss to know what to do, until Ninhursag's sacred
fox fetches the Goddess.

Ninhursag relents and takes Enki's Ab (water, or semen) into her body,
and gives birth to Gods of healing of each part of the body. The last
one - Ninti, Sumerian = Lady Rib, is also a pun on Lady Life, a title
of Ninhursag herself. The story symbolically reflects the way in which
life is brought forth through the addition of water to the land, and
once it grows, water is required to bring plants to fruit. It also
counsels balance and responsibility, nothing to excess. In this way
Enki learns painfully what happens when things are out of balance -
Enki is thus a God of ecology. Ninti, is given the title of the mother
of all living. This is also the title given to Eve, the Aramaic
Hawwah, who was made from the Rib of Adam, in a strange reflection of
the Sumerian myth."


Come to think of it, Enki was pretty awesome. I think all modern men
should worship him as the progenitor of everything that is masculine
and manly.


-- 
James Knevitt
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