Is this "New Age" thinking?

[Lokabrenna]

Regarding the OP, as a student of Near Eastern Studies, I’m baffled by it. To start with, Enki was never really the head of the pantheon, that honor belongs to Enlil, although Enki was highly regarded as a “friend of humanity” and the cities that claimed him as patron did ascribe to him a certain level of prominence over the other gods (but that was a common practice).

Serpents aren’t always benevolent, either. In Norse cosmology, for instance (although Norse warriors did decorate their helmets with images of serpents).

This just looks like an attempt to shoehorn Sumerian deities into something almost Zoroastrian in nature. Is this from those “Lost Books of Enki” by any chance? It’s about as far removed from Sumerian mythology as Christianity is from Islam.

If anyone’s interested in actual research regarding ancient Mesopotamia, I recommend Benjamin R. Foster’s book From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry from Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Near Eastern History And Culture by William H. Stiebing, Jr. which are the two textbooks that were used in the Near Eastern Studies classes I took.

Now I’m going to go cry in a corner…

 

[Vladd]

Regarding the OP, as a student of Near Eastern Studies, I’m baffled by it. To start with, Enki was never really the head of the pantheon, that honor belongs to Enlil, although Enki was highly regarded as a “friend of humanity” and the cities that claimed him as patron did ascribe to him a certain level of prominence over the other gods (but that was a common practice).

Serpents aren’t always benevolent, either. In Norse cosmology, for instance (although Norse warriors did decorate their helmets with images of serpents).

This just looks like an attempt to shoehorn Sumerian deities into something almost Zoroastrian in nature. Is this from those “Lost Books of Enki” by any chance? It’s about as far removed from Sumerian mythology as Christianity is from Islam.

If anyone’s interested in actual research regarding ancient Mesopotamia, I recommend Benjamin R. Foster’s book From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry from Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Near Eastern History And Culture by William H. Stiebing, Jr. which are the two textbooks that were used in the Near Eastern Studies classes I took.

Now I’m going to go cry in a corner…

Well being that Enki disobeyed Anu’s order the real head of the Sumerian gods then he was on his own and some other gods followed therefore making him the leader kinda Like the fallen angels! ( keep reading it gets more interesting)But in this case the order he disobeyed was instead of letting the humans drown in a flood he told them it was coming and prepared them . This raises a brow is all I’m saying , confuses me because if I believe this then it kinda flips the bible story around in a complete 180 , know what I mean? Speaking of the zorats that was the first religion that believed in one god but yet had two cosmic forces , one good and one evil. The hebrews were not the first that’s why I have always had a hard time exepting you know what I mean? Is there any legit explanation for why this is because I’m so confused and dont know what to think or believe its sad .I mean that means the other gods that wanted the humans to drown -Anu ,Enlil etc. where at odds and in fact enemies with him, later coming to the Hebrews and giving rules to live by and labeling Enki evil. How does that sound? Am I wrong?

 

[Vladd]

Regarding the OP, as a student of Near Eastern Studies, I’m baffled by it. To start with, Enki was never really the head of the pantheon, that honor belongs to Enlil, although Enki was highly regarded as a “friend of humanity” and the cities that claimed him as patron did ascribe to him a certain level of prominence over the other gods (but that was a common practice).

Serpents aren’t always benevolent, either. In Norse cosmology, for instance (although Norse warriors did decorate their helmets with images of serpents).

This just looks like an attempt to shoehorn Sumerian deities into something almost Zoroastrian in nature. Is this from those “Lost Books of Enki” by any chance? It’s about as far removed from Sumerian mythology as Christianity is from Islam.

If anyone’s interested in actual research regarding ancient Mesopotamia, I recommend Benjamin R. Foster’s book From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry from Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Near Eastern History And Culture by William H. Stiebing, Jr. which are the two textbooks that were used in the Near Eastern Studies classes I took.

Now I’m going to go cry in a corner…

Or you could try ( the treasures if darkness, history of mesopotamian religion) look I don’t know what to believe at this point , that’s why I’m here looking for answers and explanations! I don’t know myself I just don’t know.