Myth, ritual, and order in "Enki and the world order". From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: Averbeck, Richard E. | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"Enki and the World Order" (henceforth EWO) is a long and relatively well-preserved Sumerian mythological composition (ca. 472 lines). (1) It divides naturally into four major sections. First, there is an opening third-person praise to Enki (lines 1-60). Second, Enki praises himself twice in the first person (lines 61-139): (a) in his first self-praise Enki recounts how Enlil commissioned him and gave him the gift of the me's and nam-tar, the various cultural components that made u...

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