Eridu Genesis

Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth or Sumerian Flood Myth, is a work of Sumerian religion offering a description of the story surrounding how humanity was created by the gods, the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities in Mesopotamia, how the office of kingship appeared, and the global flood myth.

Other creation myths include the Barton Cylinder, the Debate between sheep and grain and between Winter and Summer, also found at Nippur. Similar flood myths are described in the Atra-Hasis and the Epic of Gilgamesh, where the former deals with the internal conflict of an organisation of Sumerian gods which they try to end by creating the first humans as labour slaves, followed by a mass reproduction of these creatures and a great flood triggered by Enlil. The Genesis creation narrative exhibits striking parallels, leading researchers to long assume influence on the emergence of the Hebrew Bible.

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