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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.
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During the exile Jews equated Yahweh with the Mesopotamian deity Ea or Enki (god of the fresh waters) to produce an image of Yahweh as bringer of fertility.
Bernhard Lang, The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity by Gnuse, Robert / Biblical Theology Bulletin
Enki Bilal's sets locate the action in what looks like an abandoned factory, where the homeless live in hole's in the walls and militiamen patrol the roof with searchlights and guard dogs.
BALLET PRELJOCAJ by NAUDE, ALICE / Dance Magazine
The portrayal of a deity shaping the first humans out of clay appears in both ancient Egyptian creation mythology (where the god Khnum is the creator) and Sumerian myths (in one story the god Enki is the creator and in another the goddess Ninmah).
Science, religion, and public school education by Larue, Gerald A. / The Humanist
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