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Enki suggested that one of their number, the god We, should be killed and humankind created from clay mixed with his flesh and blood so that
gods could make the humans do the work. Chthonic gods are often fertility deities and often associated with mystery cults. The earliest
Mesopotamian gods and goddesses are known from the earliest Sumerian literature, the oldest written language on our planet. Mesopotamian
Gods and Goddesses. But after Enki and Nitur or Ninham had created humans, they multiplied at such rate that the noise they made kept Enlil
sleepless. Updated October 24, Those stories were written down by city administrators who were involved in the upkeep of the religion.
According to the oldest surviving legend, the Myth of Atrahasis, the gods originally had to toil for a living. The word chthonic is a Greek word
meaning "of the earth," and in Mesopotamian scholarship Chthonic is used to refer to earth and underworld gods as opposed to sky gods. They
rebelled and went on strike. According to these 4th millennium B. Enlil sent the god of death Namtarto to cause a plague to diminish their numbers,
but Attrahsis had human beings concentrate all worship and offerings on Namtar and the people were saved. There are literally thousands of names
of different gods in the Mesopotamian pantheon, because city-states adopted, redefined, and invented new gods and goddesses as needed.