Where does Enki come from and what is his story?
Enki, the great prince of heaven, is one of the gods of the highest triad of the pantheon of the Anunnaki along with his father Anu and his half-brother Enlil.The Anunnaki, later known as the Elohim, were a group of celestial deities whose deeds were documented in the historical records of the Sumerian civilization, one of the oldest in history.The religious literature of the Sumerians precedes even the Hebrew Bible for several millennia, underlies the mythologies of several ancient cultures such as Akkadian, Babylonian, Western and Greek Semitic and shares certain similarities with the most primordial varieties of the Indo-European spiritual current.
According to Sumerian literature, Enki was a benevolent god who created Man in his image and likeness through his own divine DNA, taught his human progeny the sciences of the gods and built the great primordial civilizations.Enki is the true ancestral Father of Humanity.
Enki, his Sumerian name, means 'Lord of the Earth' and his Mesopotamian epithets includedNudimmud(Maker),Ushumgal(Great Serpent) andLord of the Abzu, the abyss of the primordial waters.Enki was a creator god, a master of divine wisdom represented by the symbol of the Serpent and an aquifer deity.In Babylon he was known as Ea, the noble prince of celestial knowledge;in ancient Egyptian culture he was venerated as Ptah, the great god-maker and lord of magic;and in Greek mythology it was identical with the benevolent titan Prometheus who enlightened Man, his own creation, with the Fire of the Gods.