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  • In a Sumerian tale In that tale Enki impregnates the goddess Uttu but the semen is hurting her so the goddess Ninhursag removes it and plants it in the ground. Eight trees and plants grow from it. Enki then eats all eight, Ninhursag curses him for his actions and he in turn becomes deathly ill. Ninhursag is later either tricked or talked into helping Enki (who she had earlier cursed). She then sleeps with and is impregnated by Enki. She gives birth to eight deities who in turn cure Enki's eight afflictions. The Eden Trees bestowed knowledge or immortality on their eaters. It was God who punished Adam and Eve. In the above tale, it is the opposite. The plants themselves are the cause of pain and it is a goddess who cures them.

    The Sumerians did not have a "unified" Eden myth. Instead they had numerous myths dealing with a place called Dilmun. Just what and where was Dilmun? There seems to have been two such places in Sumerian literature. A mythical paradise-like place and a real geographic local that traded with and paid tribute to various Mesopotamian lands. Most scholars now identify Dilmun with the island of Bahrein. This may well be the case for the later historical Dilmun, but the earlier paradise like Dilmun could not have been there.
    The Paradise-Dilmun (for a lack of a better term) is described as the "place where the sun rises" so it would have to be to the east of Sumer. Bahrein is almost directly south. In an inscription of king Lugalannemundu of Adab (c.2400 BC) eight lands are listed which the king claims control over: the Cedar Land, Elam, Marhashi, Gutium, Subir, Martu, Sutium and Eanna. The last seven names are in geographic order from south-western Iran up through Assyria and Syria and then down into southern Mesopotamia itself. So "the Cedar Land" would be to the east of Elam in south-western Iran. According to myth Utu, the Sumerian sun-god "rises from the land of aromatics and cedar." And lastly in a Dumuzi lament there is the line: "The cedar, the consecrated of Hashur, The shade of Dilmun". When you add all of this together: 1)The Cedar Lands are to the east of Elam (and Sumer), 2)Dilmun is the place where the sun rises, 3)Utu (the sun) rises from the "Land of aromatics and cedar", 4)The cedar is the "shade of Dilmun" it is clear that Dilmun was to the east and was a land full of cedar. It was either in southern Iran, Baluchistan or even possibly the Harrapan/Indus valley civilization. How do we reconcile the Paradise-Dilmun of myth with the later historical Dilmun? In early antiquity Dilmun may well have been the term used to describe a land to the east. Later the same name was used to describe a closer land that was a trading partner (Bahrein). This was the case with the country of Magan also. In the third millennium it was the name given to the land that is now Oman. In later times it was the name given to Egypt.






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