Eridu was Enki's sacred city and site of the Abzu temple, where he kept the Me (divine decrees) and dispensed wisdom to humanity. Sumerian tradition held it as the first city where kingship descended from heaven.
Inanna traveled to Eridu and feasted with Enki in the Abzu, plying him with beer until he gifted her the Me — the divine decrees of civilization — which she loaded onto her Boat of Heaven and carried back to Uruk despite Enki's attempts to reclaim them.
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