Ea

God (or sometimes goddess) who appears in the religions of several ancient Middle Eastern peoples, such as the c and the Babylonians. As a leading deity in the principal Assyrio-Babylonian triad with Anu and Enlil, he was the two-headed god of wisdom and water, including the apsu (underground waters). Part human, part fish, he was associated with the Babylonian creation story, forming order out of the chaos of the primal waters, as described in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

As a Sumerian deity, Ea fashioned humans from clay for the gods, and warned these mortal servants of an impending flood being sent to destroy them.

Ea was also an important god in exorcistic and purifying magic, and a patron of crafts and craftsmen. His main shrine was at Eridu (now Tell Abu Shahrain, Iraq) by the Gulf. Marduk, the double-headed sun god, was his son.