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Eridu (Sumerian: 𒉣𒆠, romanized: NUN.KI; Sumerian: eridugki; Akkadian: irîtu) was a
Sumerian city
located at Tell Abu
Shahrain (Arabic: تل أبو شهرين)...
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Eridu Genesis, also
called the
Sumerian Creation Myth,
Sumerian Flood Story and the
Sumerian Deluge Myth,
offers a
description of the
story surrounding...
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Eridu is an
unincorporated area in
Taylor County,
Florida and was a rail stop on the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. It was
named after Erid****, the latin...
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continuing into the
Jemdet Nasr and
Early Dynastic periods. The
Sumerian city of
Eridu, on the
coast of the
Persian Gulf, is
considered to have been one of the...
- on humanity.
After the fall of
Eridu, a
group of
survivors established a
bastion against the
invaders known as New
Eridu. The
group survived the oncoming...
- sacrifices.
Eridu Genesis has a
similar plot to that of the
Akkadian myth, Atra-Hasis,
though it is
harder to tell what
happens exactly in
Eridu Genesis because...
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sources (e.g. Damascius). He was
originally the
patron god of the city of
Eridu, but
later the
influence of his cult
spread throughout Mesopotamia and to...
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period and
succeeded by the Late
Chalcolithic period. The
excavators of
Eridu and Tell al-'Ubaid
found Ubaid pottery for the
first time in the 1910-20s...
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Eridu by
their god Enki or by his
advisor (or
Abgallu from ab=water, gal=big, lu=man),
Adapa U-an (the
Oannes of Berossus). The
first people at
Eridu...
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attempting to
provide explanations for the
origin of the universe. For instance,
Eridu Genesis, the
oldest known creation myth,
contains an
account of the creation...
