Mummu
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In Mesopotamian mythology, Mummu is described as the personified original watery form and served as the page to Apsu, the god of the sweet waters underground. Mummu, along with Apsu, plotted to kill the younger gods due to their noisy gatherings. However, the god Ea intervened, causing Apsu to fall into a deep sleep and then killing him.12
Mummu, along with Apsu and Tiamat (the personification of the salt waters), were part of the primordial chaos from which the first gods, Lahmu and Lahamu, were born. These early deities represent the powers in silt and the horizon, and they were progenitors of other gods like Anshar and Kishar. Mummu is a figure in the Babylonian creation epic, the Enuma elish.321
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Mesopotamian religionMyths…in this by his page Mummu, “the original (watery) form.” When the youngest of the gods, the clever Ea (Sumerian: Enki), heard about the planned attack he forestalled it by means of a powerful spell with which he poured slumber on Apsu, killed him, and built his temple over him.…
Read More…in this by his page Mummu, “the original (watery) form.” When the youngest of the gods, the clever Ea (Sumerian: Enki), heard about the planned attack he forestalled it by means of a powerful spell with which he poured slumber on Apsu, killed him, and built his temple over him.…
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Mummu, the personified original watery form, served as Apsu’s page. In their midst the gods were born. The first pair, Lahmu and Lahamu, represented the powers in silt; the next, Anshar and Kishar, those in the horizon. They engendered the god of heaven, Anu, and…
Read MoreMummu, the personified original watery form, served as Apsu’s page. In their midst the gods were born. The first pair, Lahmu and Lahamu, represented the powers in silt; the next, Anshar and Kishar, those in the horizon. They engendered the god of heaven, Anu, and…
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