ENKI + NINHURSAG. an annunaki babylonian love story of creation :) fantastic!!!

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i have found a wonderful babylonian story of creation story which predates the garden of eden or any of that.

this is a beautiful story which says so much to me.
to me, this story is full of wisdom.

it is about the feminine and the masculine working together, creating beautiful things, and also sorry, but in the end reunited and wiser for it.

i cannot summarize it right now.
so i give you the link.

it's well worthy reading, and if anyone else finds any other interpretations on this i would love it.

it mentions the annunaki and "the rib" (a la adam)

it is a story about love, lust, consent, creation....so much.

i wanted to share with you that i found it.

so voila.

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excerpt:


"Tonight you loved me so dearly, tonight I was your spouse, the one and only, your dearest, ‘ she thought . ‘ But will you love me in the morning, o lustiest of all gods? Will you stay in my arms and never let me go? And will you love for more than a holy night, and share with me happy and hard times?’

But when morning came and Uttu looked into Enki’s eyes, she knew she still was not the one to hold captive the Sweet Waters Lord. With a tender kiss Enki took his leave, but did not say when he was going to come back, or ever returned to stay. Uttu swallowed stubborn tears, but decided no to surrender to loss and sorrow, and more.

‘I vow not to be bonded to Enki from this moment on,’ she promised herself with a deep-rooted resolve. ‘ If he does not want me for myself, for what we can together be, I will not carry any of his seeds within or without my very being!’

Uttu immediately turned then to Ninhursag for help. The Great Mother goddess, beloved by all, would know what to do, would ensure the best course of action.

‘ Wipe out Enki’s seed of your body, and bury within the depths of the Earth the promise of life you shared with him, ’ said the Great Lady and Womb of Creation. ’ Let the Earth receive and transform yours and Enki’s seed. And after you do this all, take your time so that your body, heart, mind and soul may heal. And I, who have known love, pain, sorrow and immense joy, give you, daughter, a very special blessing: may the wisdom of experience brought by such pain enter your being again and may you learn to ask as much as you give from your future lovers for as long as you live. Reciprocation is the key for everlasting relationships!’

Where Ninhursag buried Enki’s seed, nine days later eight plants, luscious and strong, started to grow. Ninhursag laughed and declared happily to each of them:

‘Out of the depths of the earth, out of my stony womb, eight plants came out to bring more blessings to the world! Eight they are, and from now on each of them will be both fathers and mothers, the very first Seed, of a new group of beings, whom I’ll call Plants, creatures of green and color, that will nourish, heal and grow in the glory of Dilmun and the Middleworld.’

After a time, Enki returned, happy and carefree, as it was his custom to be. He was not alone, but in the company of the two-faced god Isimud, Enki’s vizier and friend. Both took long walks around the riverbanks, enjoyed the pleasures of the marshlands. Both saw the luscious plants.

‘What sorts of beings are those, Isimud, my faithful servant and friend? What is in them so new and yet so old that fills my heart with desire and my mind with deep-rooted curiosity? I want to taste them, to know their hearts, I want to know their insides. What, pray, is this plant?’, asked Enki Isimud, pointing at the closest one.

‘My king, this is a tree plant’, Isimud answered, and sworn as he was to serve the Sweet Waters Lord, Isimud then proceeded to cut down a piece of the tree-plant and passed it on to Enki, who immediately ate it with greed.

The taste of the tree-plant fuelled even more Enki’s desire to know the nature of the other seven plants left.. He asked Isimud about the nature of the seven plants, their essence and content. Isimud replied to all his mater’s questions, cutting down a sample of each and passing them on to Enki, who devoured them immediately with glee. This way Enki got to know the hearts of the Plants World.

Seeing that once again Enki had shown no respect or restraint, taking over to make his own not only young maiden goddesses, but also the Plants World angered Ninhursag beyond any measure.

‘Enough is enough!’ exclaimed the Great Mother, Mistress and Supreme Queen of the Earth, outraged and furious at Enki’s disdain for all beings, human or plants. ‘ Enki, you’ve gone too far by taking over the hearts’ essence of not only young goddesses, but also by taking into yourself eight primeval samples of the Plants World. It is good to feel desire and experience the need to be one with the beloved. But there is a profound responsibility implicit in falling in love and captivating someone’s mind, body, heart and soul. You, Enki, came out of the blue into many maidens’ lives, set yourself up like a squatter within their hearts only to leave them afterwards, never to return. But even then you were not satisfied in your lust to know and experience everything, so you turned to the newly created Plants World. You, Enki, tasted each one of the eight sacred plants, devouring them next with greed. You never asked, but always took without giving anything back, a sign of acknowledgement, a simple caress. To how many did you bring a little death to their spirit, to their hopes about a future with you? For all this, you deserve a mighty lesson, for it is high time that you, Enki, learn in sorrow what you did not learn in happiness: I will never look at you with a life-giving eye from this moment on. May the suffering you inflicted return to you threefold!’

With these words, Great Ninhursag disappeared, leaving Enki clearly divided between the joy of seeing the one and only to his heart and the growing concern for her parting words.

Because indeed Enki’s health began to fail. A strange illness this was: eight organs of his body fell progressively ill. Indeed, they started to die in Enki’s living body. The Anunnaki, the Great Gods, were disconsolate with Enki’s suffering. Father An, the Skylord, Enlil, Lord Air and Enki’s beloved older brother, all healer gods and goddesses of the land tried everything they could to no avail. Only Ninhursag could not be found anywhere, while Enki’s health deteriorated little by little day after day.

It soon came a time when Enlil left Enki’s side to sit on the dust, so immerse he was in despair and worry for the health of his younger and favorite brother. The Air Lord grieved for Enki. A world without the Lord of the Sweet Waters, Magic and Crafts, how sad it would be! Enlil simply could not conceive life without Enki’s cunning, humor and sheer energy.

It was then that a fox, a creature of the wild sacred to Ninhursag, came to console Lord Air:

‘I’ve seen the suffering of the Sweet Waters Lord, I’ve witnessed the lament of the greatest of the Anunnaki for Enki, their beloved brother. Only Ninhursag can heal him, only the Mistress of All Creation can make him whole again. I’ll do my best to go and find the Greatest Lady of Earth, holy Ninhursag I am sworn to worship and serve till the end of my days. I will find the Great Goddess and bring her here to accomplish the healing of the sick god.’

The fox disappeared, but kept her promise, for Ninhursag relented and came running to Enki’s aid. She went straight to the chamber where Enki laid in agony, and, with a wave of her mighty hand, Ninhursag dismissed healers, nurses and well-wishers. Their work was done. Ninhursag’s had just begun.

With immense tenderness, the Mistress of All Creation made herself comfortable by on the bed, carefully placing Enki’s head on her vagina. She then leaned forward and wrapped herself, arms, legs, breasts around the body of the Sweet Waters Lord. Enki was this way lovingly embraced by the Great Lady, kept safe and protected by her warmth, and arms that felt strong yet very sweet. Like a nurturing womb, the Great Lady wrapped herself around the Sweet Waters god.

Ninhursag whispered softly in Enki’s ear:

‘Dearest, what hurts you?’

‘O beloved, my whole body hurts me.’, Enki managed to answer with visible effort.

Ninhursag rocked gently back and forth with much care the sick god:

‘I know your body hurts, dear heart, but soon you will be made whole again. Because I’ll receive in my Womb of Abundance, the nest of creation, the seeds that you so greedily ate and that made you so ill. I’ll take them all into my body so that they can bring healing, not harm to all beings. Let the Work begin!’

‘My rib hurts me....(a cut oyut a bunch of stuff here because i did not want to get inot everything she healed)

'To the goddess Ninti, the Lady of the Rib and the One who makes Live, I have given birth for you to set your rib free.’

As soon as Ninhursag uttered the last sentence, Enki felt no pain or ache, revitalized and stronger than ever. Indeed, as if he himself had been reborn in the close embrace of Ninhursag. Gone was the pain, the fever, the shivers.

‘I am alive,’ he said very simply, his voice full of wonder, ‘and yet it feels so different from the moment I came out of the sea of mother Nammu or when I met Ereshkigal in the Underworld.’

He moved into Ninhursag’s arms, for he wanted to see her face too. The Great Lady had closed her eyes, but there was a smile on her lips. She rested against the pillows of Enki’s bed, still holding him in a loose embrace.

Now it was his turn to act with immense tenderness, as he shifted positions to make her rest on his chest.

‘You healed me by sending your soul into my body’, he said, deeply moved by the Gift of Life he had been given, and more. ‘This is why you are so wearied. And the reason why I feel so much more part of yourself as a consequence. How could I have been so stupid not to understand you or myself until now? It was you I longed for, your embrace, your touch. But beforehand I wanted you for me only, and desired all maidens, because I knew not of the extent of my longing for you and only you. How impossibly stupid of me to think that I should find your image in every maiden I came across just to leave them when I realized they were not you!’

They kissed passionately.

‘I would never bind you to me against your True Will, beloved,’ said simply Ninhursag. ‘ And because you understood this great mystery, because you and I are indeed two of a kind, let all worlds know what I now declare: from this very moment on let it be known that I, Ninhursag, the Earth Mother, Wisest beyond all Beings in the Ways of Nature, built a house for my beloved and myself on a Rock, steadfast and solid...’

‘Let me finish this for you... for us, dearest,’ interrupted Enki Ninhursag with a kiss,’ I, Enki, the Lord of Sweet Waters, say that from this strong and solid rock that means Life, Love and Fruition for me the Waters of Life will flow forever in all worlds we dare to fare’.

They kissed and hugged passionately, sealing their shared Fate forever, for as long as they wanted to be together.

‘For you I stayed here in Dilmun, the place of delights, where we are safe from hate or harm’, continued Enki. 'Now I know that you made me ill to make me see that the bond that I feel for you is stronger than friendship or love. I know now that even if we cannot be together all the time, we will never be apart. But tell me, dearest, did you really need to be so radical and cast on me the eye of death?’

Indeed, Enki had come back to his normal enquiring self. Ninhursag could burst of joy, and her laughter was pure delight and mischief:

‘This, Enki, you will never find out!’

Enki chuckled, half disappointed, half amused. Life with Ninhursag would never be boring, this he knew for sure. She would certainly drive him nuts with her assertiveness, wits, passionate ways and guts many other times in the future. But she was and would be forever in his future, he loved her and wanted her like no other. Ninhursag was his Soul-Companion, his Rock of Strength, the Inspirational Divine Feminine that brightened up his life. And if he could not have the last word with her, at least Enki knew very well how to quieten Ninhursag in the sweetest and wildest way for very long moments. With perfect skill and determination he started to kiss her holy body. All over."