Enki and Enlil: The Forbidden Truth of Humanity

Enki is responsible for the creation of mankind, who were destined to serve the gods, in the Epic of Atrahasis, a Sumerian mythology epic poem that covers the story from Creation to the Great Flood.

Humans, who at this time had long lives, multiplied rapidly and Enlil, the chief of the gods, was very disturbed by the noise that humans were making and decided to send catastrophes to Earth to reduce the population and, in each catastrophe, the humans begged to Enki to teach them what to do to survive.