Enki

God of fresh water, wisdom, magic and crafts; maker of mankind.

Parentage

• parent: Anu

Children

• Marduk
• Nanshe
• Ninkasi
• Uttu

Domains

• fresh water
• wisdom crafts
• magic incantation

Powers

• Subduing Apsu with a sleep-incantation and slaying him
• Devising mankind from clay mixed with a god's blood
• Warning the flood hero to build the survival boat
• Subdue with a sleep-incantation

Epithets

• Nudimmud akkadian · Nudimmud · literaryCreator/man-fashioner; Ea as the maker of mankindEnuma Elish I.16; Atrahasis (Ea forms man from clay) (primary)
• bēl nēmeqi akkadian · bel nemeqi · cultLord of wisdom; god of cunning, magic, and craftLudlul bel nemeqi (the Babylonian Theodicy tradition); incantations (primary)
• lugal abzu akkadian · lugal abzu · cultKing of the Apsu (the freshwater deep); lord of Eridu's underground watersEnki and the World Order; the Eridu cult of the Abzu (primary)

Relations

• sibling: AdadFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Anu) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: EnlilFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Anu) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• equated with: EaReciprocal of hurrian_ea.equated-with — Hurrian Ea is Mesopotamian Ea/Enki adopted outright, name and wisdom-portfolio intact, into the Kumarbi cycle (he holds the 'tablet of destinies' wisdom-role). Less the freshwater-Apsu cosmology.G. Wilhelm, The Hurrians (1989) (secondary)
• spouse: NinhursagReciprocal of mesopotamian_ninhursag.spouse — Mother-goddess of earth and birth; consort of Enki in the Dilmun cycle and co-creator of mankind with him.Enki and Ninhursag (ETCSL 1.1.1), lines 1-30 (Enki and the mother-goddess Ninhursag in Dilmun) (primary)

Sources

• existence: Enūma Eliš, Tablet I (primary)