The most important Sumerian myths center on him.

Moreover, some curious Sumerian myths have no Semitic counterpart.

In the Sumerian myth the gods complain that they cannot get their food.

We have no evidence that the various Sumerian myths ever formed part of a ritual.

Sumerian myths were passed down through the oral tradition until the invention of writing.

Wayne Horowitz notes that five Sumerian myths recount a creation scene with the separation of heaven and earth.

"And what did Asherah do in Sumerian myths?"

The surviving Sumerian myths exist in fragments and have a bizarre quality.

So the Sumerian language died out, but the Sumerian myths were somehow passed on in the new languages.

Now he planned to read the very oldest epic of all, the Sumerian myth about Gilgamesh.