Myth, ritual, and order in "Enki and the world order".

"Enki and the World Order" (henceforth EWO) is a drawn out and relatively well-preserved Sumerian mythological composition (ca. 472 lines). (1) It divides naturally into four major sections. First, there is an opening third-person praise to Enki (lines 1-60) next to the first Enki praises himself twice in the first someone (lines 61-139): (a) in his first self-praise Enki describes how Enlil commissioned him and gave him the gift of the me's and nam-tar, the various cultural constituents that made up the core of Sumerian life and agriculture and the power to determine destinies, respectively (lines 61-85) and (b) in the next to the first self-praise Enki ...