Mesopotamia

Note: The Eridu Genesis is the oldest known Mesopotamian flood myth. It formed the inspiration for later flood stories like...

Long before humans populated the earth, the world was inhabited only by the gods. They were divided into two distinct...

Our story begins where the last adventure of Gilgamesh and Enkidu left off. The two friends (and brothers through adoption)...

Note: On this website, we chose to tell the stories of the Mesopotamian pantheon from a Sumerian perspective. This is...

The story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu is one of the oldest written stories of humankind, dating back to ancient Mesopotamia....

The first major city that was built in Mesopotamia was Uruk, and it would soon prove the be a city...

Inanna, the most powerful goddess in the Mesopotamian pantheon, was preparing for a journey. It would not just be any...

The gods of Mesopotamia panicked. It was not easy to upset the majority of the Mesopotamian pantheon all at once,...

Before he created Adapa, Enki felt a strong desire to gain a son of his own. Instead of creating one...

The story of Etana starts with a dispute between two members of the animal kingdom. The eagle and the snake...