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Mesopotamian

Enki

lord of the sweet waters, keeper of the crafts

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Enki dwells in the freshwater deep beneath the world, cunning and kind, forever finding the clever mercy the harsher gods forgot; to dream of him is to be handed the quiet loophole that saves you.

Fragments

When the great gods swore in secret to drown all mortals, he could not break his oath, so he whispered the warning to a reed wall, and a reed wall is not a man.

From his shoulders two rivers pour, thick with leaping fish, and he laughs the way deep water laughs, knowing every riddle has a door if you are patient.

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