Story
Sumerian creation myth
Creation myth
- Also called Eridu Genesis, Sumerian deluge myth, Sumerian flood story
A story,
as each source
tells it.
Time within the story
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
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The texts that tell it
What this means
A story is a group of accounts. Each carries its own source, its own cast and its own relationships, and where two disagree both stand. Account-level readings — a locator such as “Hesiod, Theogony 886–900”, with that account’s own cast and relationships — are not held yet: 0. The structured data this site imports records stories as subjects and has no equivalent of a narrative account. When accounts are added, reading one will change only the relationships that account asserts. Nothing will be deleted to make them agree.
None held here yet: 0 — an absence in the imported data, not a claim that no text tells it.
Connections
How Sumerian creation myth connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply that the culture was religiously uniform
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Sources
Sources and evidence
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1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms lead image of the French Wikipedia article
Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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More stories, tradition by tradition
The directory lists every one on record, most widely recorded first.
One story,
many tellings.