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Sumerian Tablets The Isin King List The Sumerian King list The Tablet of Adapa Akkadian Advice Akkadian Precepts A tigi for Bau to Gudea Adab for Bau to Luma The Cursing of Agade Dumuzid's dream Dumuzid and Enkimdu Dumuzid and Geshtin-ana Enki builds the E-engurra Enki and Ninhursag Enki and Ninmah Enki and the World Order Enlil in the E-kur Enlil and Ninlil Enlil and Sud Enmerkar and En-sughgir-ana Enmerkar and Lord Aratta Ereshkigal The Eridu Genesis The Farmer"s instruction Sumerian Flood Story Gilgamesh and Aga Gilgamesh - Bull of Heaven The Deadth of Gilgamesh Gilgamesh and Enkidu Gilgamesh and Huwawa The Heron and the Turtle The History of the Tummal How Grain came to Sumer A tigii to Inana Inana and Bilulu Inana to the Nether world A balbale to Inana - Dumuzid Inana and Ebih Inana and Enki Inana and Iddin-Dagan A Mythic Narrative Inana Inana and Shu-kale-tuda Inscription Umma and Lagash Instructions of Shuruppag The Lament of Eridug The Lament for Nibru The Lament for Sumer - Urim The Lament for Unug The Lament for Ur The Lament for Urim Letter from Ibbi-Suen Lugulbanda The Marriage of Martu Contracts from Mesopotamia Laws from Mesopotamia The Myth of Etana The Myth of Anzu Nanna-Suen's journey to Nibru Building of Ningirsu's temple Ningishzida to the Netherworld A shir-gida to Nininsina Nininsina and the Gods The exploits of Ninurta Ninurta and the Turtle 3 Ox-drivers from Adab Pabilsaj's journey to Nibru Praise Poem of Shulgi Poem of Utu-Hejal Proverbs from Ki-en-gir Rulers of Lagash The Sargon legend The Shumunda grass Return of Ninurta to Nibru Lugulbanda in the Cave The death of Ur-Nammu Praise poem of Ur-Nammu A tigi to Enlil for Ur-Namma THE TEMPLE HYMNS Sumerian Mythology

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SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY

A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.

SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER

REVISED EDITION

University of Pennsylvania Press

Philadelphia

[1944, revised 1961]

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION.The Sources: the Sumerian Literary Tablets Dating from Approximately 2000 B. C
CHAPTER
I.The Scope and Significance of Sumerian Mythology
II.Myths of Origins
The Creation of the Universe
The Organization of the Universe
Enlil and Ninlil: the Begetting of Nanna
The Journey of Nanna to Nippur
Emesh and Enten: Enlil Chooses the Farmer god
The Creation of the Pickax
Cattle and Grain
Enki and Ninhursag: the Affairs of the Water god
Enki and Sumer: the Organization of the Earth and Its Cultural Processes
Enki and Eridu: the Journey of the Water-god to Nippur
Inanna and Enki: the Transfer of the Arts of Civilization from Eridu to Erech
The Creation of Man
III.Myths of Kur
The Destruction of Kur: the Slaying of the Dragon
Inanna's Descent to the Nether World
IV.Miscellaneous Myths
The Deluge
The Marriage of Martu
Inanna Prefers the Farmer
V.References and Notes
Supplementary Notes
Index

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