THE SUMERIAN - 7 CREATIONS OF MANKIND
Ninmah/Ninhursag and Enki
The ancient Sumerian text entitled 'Enki and Ninmah' provides an account of how Enki and Ninmah created mankind.
Enki then set a feast for his mother Namma and for Ninmah. An, Enlil and Lord Nudimmud ate kids (goats), whilst the senior gods praised Enki as the one who had and was the 'me', The Decider of Destinies.
Enki and Ninmah drank beer and they became merry. Ninmah informed Enki that their decision to create was neither good nor bad, and her will alone was the decider of whether fate was good or bad. Enki informed Ninmah that he would counter-balance whatever fate Ninmah decided.
Ninmah then took clay from the top of The Abzu in her hand and fashioned the first man who could not bend his outstretched weak hands. Enki decreed his fate as the servant of the king.
Ninmah then fashioned a second man whose eyes were constantly open and turned back (?) the light. Enki decreed his fate as the Chief of Musical Arts for the king.
Ninmah then fashioned a third man who was paralysed with both feet broken - born as an idiot. Enki decreed his fate as a servant of the king.
Ninmah fashioned a fourth. One who could not hold back his urine. Enki healed him by bathing him in the enchanted water which drove out the demon Namtar from his body. His fate is not accounted for in the tablets.
Ninmah fashioned a fifth, a woman who could not give birth. Enki decreed her fate as belonging to the queen's household.
Enki devised a shape with a head and a mouth and said to Ninmah, "Pour ejaculated semen into a woman's womb, and the woman will give birth to the semen of her womb". Ninmah then stood by awaiting the newborn. It was 'Umul'. However, its eyes, neck, bowels, lungs and heart were afflicted. It could hardly breath and its ribs were shaky. Their hips were weak and their feet were shaky. Ninmah was to decree their fate, and in doing so she spoke to 'Umul' and asked him questions but he could not speak. She offered him bread to eat, but he could not reach out for it. He could stand, but not sit down, he could not lie down, he could not eat bread. Ninmah told Enki, "The man you have fashioned is neither alive nor dead. He cannot support himself (?)".
The fate of the 'Umul' was to pray and build a house for Enki. Enki then commanded his penis be praised (for the creations he made), and Ninmah's wisdom be confirmed.
It begins with the earth being inhabited by the gods who were assigned their positions in heaven and earth, and were marrying and reproducing amongst each other. Minor gods were dredging clay, digging canals and piling up the ground in Harali. However the minor gods began to complain about their life and blamed Enki for their sufferings.
Enki, (the one of great wisdom) who was asleep in 'the deep engur' (the primeval sea/cosmic underground waters), was awoken by his mother Namma (the primeval mother who gave birth to the senior gods) who took the tears of the minor gods to him and told him to create a substitute for the gods so they could be freed from their toils. Enki arose in annoyance and told his mother he would do as she had said so that the substitutes could carry baskets. He told his mother to knead the clay from the top of The Abzu, that the birth-goddesses should nip off the clay and the substitutes would come into existence. Once in existence, Ninmah was to impose the work on the substitutes of carrying the baskets.
To The Deep
Lucy - Australopithecus Afarensis,
Circa 5,000,000 BC - 3,000,000 BC
Ninmah fashioned a sixth, one without a penis or vagina. Enki named it Nibru eunuch, with a fate to stand before the king.
Ninmah then threw the clay from her hand to the ground and silence fell. Enki spoke to Ninmah stating, "I have decreed the fates of your creatures and given them their daily bread. Come, now I will fashion somebody for you, and you must decree the fate of the newborn one!".