Enki kept the me, the divine decrees governing all civilized arts, in his temple the E-abzu at Eridu, holding them in trust until Inanna plied him with beer and carried the powers away to Uruk aboard the Boat of Heaven.
Inanna journeyed to Eridu, feasted with Enki until the god of wisdom was drunk, and received the me — over a hundred divine powers of civilization — which she loaded onto the Boat of Heaven and bore triumphantly to Uruk despite Enki's belated attempts to reclaim them.
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