{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ane_sum_sum07_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ane_sum_sum07_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ane_sum_sum07_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/ane/sum/sum07.htm","summary":"The most significant myths of a given culture are usually the cosmogonic, or creation myths, the sacred stories evolved and developed in an effort to explain the origin of the universe, the presence of the gods, and the existence of man. And so we shall devote this chapter, by far the longest in our monograph, to the creation theories and concepts current in Sumer in the third millennium B. G.","tags":["Ancient Mesopotamia","Cuneiform Writing","Samuel Noah Kramer","Sumerian Mythology"],"text":null,"title":"Sumerian Mythology: Chapter II. Myths of Origins","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Ancient Near East","translated_text":null,"word_count":12627}