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W٨٩ an Aslepieion founded bhy the Seleuids

sicness and of no ageing: "[...] the Earth', was the patron god of

The sic-eyed says not I am sic Eridu. Among many attributes, he

eyed', the sicheaded says not I is related with creation and water,

am sic-headed', its old woman sea water and fresh water (2)

says not 'I am an old woman', and the underwater. He is the god

the old man says not 'I am an old of 'abu', the waters under the

man'.'(1) Reading through the earth and the sea. The Sumerians

poem, one realizes that there is a believed that the eatrh and the salt

lot of credit in the argument that sea rested upon another sea, the

behind hte Biblical Garden of ''abzu', which is made of rfesh

Eden is the description of Tylos water.Abzu was thesourceofrivers,

in the 'Eni and Ninhursag' laes, wells and springs. Although

myth. Thus, Tylos had a special Gula was the goddess of healing

mythical and holy signiifcance and patroness of doctors, Eni

for the Mesopotamians and the was also considered to be related

inhabitants of the island. with healing and incantation.(3)

Eni is one of the gods in Among his favourite symbols is a

the Sumerian mythology, later double helix snae on a caduceus

nown as Ea in the Aadian which resembles the serpent­

and Babylonian mythology. Eni, entwined rod of Aslepios.

whose name means the Lord of

The serpent-entwined Enis double helix
rod of Aslepios snae on a caduceus