Enki and Ninhursaga

Enki and Ninhursag

Anonymous / tradition · c. 18th century BC (Old Babylonian copies from Nippur and Ur of an older Sumerian composition) · Nippur (Iraq) · epic

Set in the paradise-land of Dilmun, the myth argues that even a father god's own reckless fertility can poison him, since Enki's serial seductions of his own descendants sicken him organ by organ until Ninhursaga relents and heals him.