Sumerian Mythology Archive

How Grain Came To Sumer (Sumerian Myth, Translation)

The story of How grain came to Sumer is the account within Sumerian Religion of the distant ages of deep antiquity before humans had known grain, and how it eventually came to be domesticated in their lands of southern Mesopotamia. […]

Adapa

Adapa is an ancient figure from Sumerian Religion, who was preserved in historical records for over a thousand years. It is not exactly clear what he was, or the exact role he played in ancient religion, because the accounts vary. […]