Enki and Ninhursag - the ancient heritage of the Kurds

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Enki and Ninhursag

The ancient heritage of the Kurds

Thousands of years before the Abrahamic religions even existed.

Several thousands of years before camels from the Arabian peninsula even knew which road led north, towards Kurdistan.

Then the Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia - a people that many scientists see as one of the ancestors of the Kurds. It was in their temples, cities and myths that the world's first stories of creation were carved in stone, with the eternal signs of the wedge.

One of the most powerful myths tells about Enki, the god of wisdom, water, and creation, and Ninhursag, the mother goddess, protector of life and earth.

In the paradise Dilmun, they united. Their love was forbidden - but it created new life and new gods. When Enki suffered a deadly disease, cursed by Ninhursag herself, she sat by his head and gave birth to eight healing divinities. In that way she saved him to life.

Enki and Ninhursag also had a common role in human creation:

Out of the earth's clay, Ninhursag formed the human body

Enki breathed the breath of life

Man was born - not out of sin, but out of a holy act between deity and earth

These myths were written in Sumer, thousands of years before the Bible, Quran or Torah.

They show that our heritage, our history, and our roots are deeper than the religions that later tried to write about the beginning of the world.

The Sumerians - our ancestors - already then carried an awareness of creation, life and man's place in the universe. A heritage that we Kurds still carry within us.

Before Abraham existed, Sumer existed

Before monotheism - there was Enki and Ninhursag