Myths and sagas

So last time we discussed the Norse pantheon and the war that raged on for ages between the two distinct...

Odin, Vili, and Ve had created the universe out of the remains of Ymir and had killed almost every living...

In the beginning, there was no light, but only chaotic darkness. This darkness inhabited no lifeforms, except for Rod, the...

The story of the creation of life in Norse mythology is a story of fire, ice, and darkness. That story...

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...