The Sumerian creation myth presents symbolic layers and interpretations that go beyond the literal narrative, involving concepts of energy, consciousness, and cosmic order. The Sumerian gods ...

He was obviously a personification of the nomads of the desert and steppe. The Sumerian myth of Martu tells that he dwells in the mountains…he carries a weapon. He eats truffles in the foot of the ...

for the hero king on whom the story is based, Gilgamesh is quoted as being two-thirds god and one-third human. In the poem, Gilgamesh is described as the son of a minor Sumerian goddess Ninsun and ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...