Sumerian religion has its roots in the worship of nature, such as the wind and water. Sumer, or the ‘land of civilized kings’, flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate language and writing, architecture and arts, astronomy and mathematics. Their religious system was a complex one comprised of hundreds of gods. According to the ancient texts, each Sumerian city was guarded by its own god; and while humans and gods used to live together, the humans were servants to the gods. Here is the sequence of the Babylonian version of the Sumerian creation myth which Roux presents: 1. In the beginning, there was only a primordial sea of saltwater. This living sea was named Nammu , described as female, and was the sole element in the universe. 2. Nammu created the sky and the earth, intimately joined together. The earth was flat with an underground aquifer named Abz...
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