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Visual depiction of Enki

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Enki

Sumerian god of water and wisdom


seated in his Abzu fresh-water temple, streams of water flowing from his shoulders, fish swimming around him

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.