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	Apsû - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The apsû (also known as abzu or engur) was the name for the mythological underground freshwater ocean in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology.
		In Eridu Enki's temple was known as E-abzu ("the abzu temple").
		Certain tanks of holy water in Babylonian and Assyrian temple courtyards were also called apsû or abzu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abzu (254 words)

	Sumerian Gods, Demons and Immortals whose Names Start with 'A'
		Abzu (Sumerian AB=father; ZU=wise; wise father) was the primeval male god, the husband of Tiamat.
		Abzu's body became the original Earth, which was entirely water, and Enki, (En=lord, ki=Earth) Lord of the Earth, became its first tutelary god.
		According to Sumerian mythology, Abzu became the vast fresh water sea that was later overlaid by Tiamat's corpse (land).
	www.jameswbell.com /geog0050anames.html (2057 words)

	Ninurta and the turtle
		the abzu as Enki's shrine / temple in Eridu 2.
		the abzu as a mythical place where the life influencing powers reside and where their results, as well as the means to influence their effects, originate 5.
		abzu in DN 8 abzu in TN 9.
	www.piney.com /BabNinTurtle.html (607 words)

	Mesopotamia by Night: When We Were Gods
		Abzu was the first of our kind, and Marduk later identified this Abzu to me as Caine.
		Abzu was a mighty being, unfathomable and not even remotely human.
		She rejected Abzu's plan to slay the Younger Gods, but she swore revenge on the Younger Gods when Abzu was slain.
	www.nyboria.de /meso_myth.htm (1662 words)

	A Mesopotamian Pantheon
		A primordial being, possibly a child of Abzu and Tiamat, and mother of Ansar.
		A primordial being, child of Abzu and Tiamat, and father of Ansar.
		When Abzu was slain, Tiamat released monstrous creatures in vengeance, and was in turn slain by, as later version have it, Marduk.
	web.raex.com /~obsidian/MesoPan.html (2811 words)

	The Sumerian Universe
		The Seas were considered to be the watery remains of the primordial mother goddess, Tiamat, slain by Enlil and interred on the Earth on top of the Abzu.
		The Abzu was considered to be the remains of the primordial father god, Abzu, slain by Enki and interred on the Earth.
		Waters of the Abzu were considered inherently good and produced ‘hegal’ (Sumerian for ‘pure good.’) In ancient Sumer, fresh water was considered the primary purifying agent.
	www.jameswbell.com /m001universe.html (751 words)

	The temple hymns
		Abzu, shrine erected for its prince, E-dul-kug (House which is the holy mound) where pure food is eaten, watered by the prince's pure canal, mountain, pure place cleansed with the potash plant, abzu, your tigi drums belong to the divine powers.
		Your foundation is the abzu, fifty in number, and the engur, seven in number, a shrine which looks into the heart of the gods.
		Asar-alim-nuna, the son of the abzu, has erected a house in your precinct, O house Kuara, and taken his seat upon your dais.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/gatestobabylon/templehymns.html (4448 words)

	Serpentningishzida
		This god may be Enki, the Sumerian god of Wisdom and Knowledge, whose main temple was at Eridu (in other myths, Enki lives in the marshlands on the paradise island called Dilmun).
		He is the god who provides mankind with freshwaters emanating from under his throne in the "ABZU" house.
		The Sumerians, in myths, explained the source of the Tigris and Euphrates as the Abzu, the subterranean Fresh-water sea.
	www.bibleorigins.net /Serpentningishzida.html (154 words)

	The Infography about the Ancient Near East
		Abzu: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet.
		Abzu is an experimental guide to the rapidly increasing and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East.
		Abzu seeks to provide a hypertextual guide to this material through a series of interrelated indexes on the World Wide Web.
	www.infography.com /content/937921686069.html (333 words)

	Bryn Mawr Electronic Resources Review - ABZU
		ABZU is a wonderful resource for scholars and students and a formidable undertaking by the Research Archivist of the Oriental Institute, Charles E. Jones.
		All possible links between various parts of ABZU, particularly the secondary indices, are not established, so that a click on the "back" arrow often takes one out of ABZU altogether and into information on the Oriental Institute or the Research Archives.
		ABZU contains links to an astonishing wealth of data and information, which at this moment is sometimes hard for the uninitiated to find.
	www.csanet.org /bmerr/1999/RubinABZURJul.html (1368 words)

	Flying Serpents and Dragons - Hidden Mysteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the myth Enki and the World Order, Abzu is described as a splendid shrine, nestled among the shad trees which are filled with birds, and among navigable canals which are stocked with fish.
		It was also here in the Abzu that he maintained control over the MEs or Tablets of Destiny, those strange objects which appeared to be crystals and were used for the storage of information or as power sources.
		It was to the Abzu that Ishtar journeyed in order to extract some of the ME from Enki by first getting him drunk.
	www.hiddenmysteries.com /item100/item164.html (684 words)

	Book of the Ancients
		Well, Abzu is their word for the primeval force from which all things come from.
		They said he ruled all and Abzu is all, so he was referred to as lord of the seas.
		The one constant with the Abzu is the underworld-waters concept.
	www.geocities.com /digital3v14/texts/ancients.htm (10558 words)

	Etana
		Abzu currently operates as a Web site that provides access to material on the Internet related to the field of ANE studies.
		We envision transforming Abzu into a database-driven application that then becomes the metadata engine that ties together not only the ANE resources that exist throughout the Internet, but also those that are directly part of ETANA.
		Abzu is currently managed by the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
	staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu /etana/techplan.html (4876 words)

	ABZU Bibliography: Search and Edit
		Abzu is a guide to the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the Internet.
		Abzu has been available on the Internet since 5 October, 1994.
		The editor of Abzu is Charles E. Jones, Research Archivist - Bibliographer at The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
	www.etana.org /abzu (155 words)

	First myths about Creation and World Order
		ABZU = abyss is used for other aspect too.
		A) The Abzu as Enki's shrine / temple in Eridu.
		C) The Abzu as a mythical place where the life influencing powers reside and where their results, as well as the means to influence their effects, originate.
	www.catshaman.com /13comp/0tree.htm (3953 words)

	The Stoa Consortium » Blog Archive » Abzu has an RSS feed
		Since 2001 Abzu has been a part of ETANA, a cooperative venture of a consortium of scholarly societies and universities to develop and maintain a comprehensive Internet site for the study of the ancient Near East (ANE).
		My move to the Blegen Library in Athens has changed the focus of Abzu somewhat, but I continue to enter and edit data relevant to the focus of the project.
		Beginning todat we have an RSS Feed from Abzu for those who wish to keep an eye on newly cataloged and recently edited entries.
	www.stoa.org /?p=203 (198 words)

	Myths of Enki
		Enki, who, lifting but a single eye, convulses the Kur, where the bison is born, the stag is born, where the wild sheep is born, the stag is born in the...meadows, and the pits in the heart of the hursag in the verdant...
		The magur-boat, the crown, the Ibex of the Abzu, brought me much joy in its midst: over the grand marsh, the place I have chosen, it swings its arms for me, it stretches its neck for me. Faultlessly the oarsmen drew the oars.
		He crossed to the Kur Meluhha, Enki, the king of the Abzu, decrees its fate: Black Kur, your trees will be large trees, they will be me-groves of the Kur: their thrones will be set in royal palaces.
	eridu.net /_enki.html (2783 words)

	Web-Editor: Abzu and Beyond, Ariadne Issue 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Named Abzu (after the subterranean swamp of Sumerian mythology; the source of raw materials, "...where the life influencing powers reside and where their results, as well as the means to influence their effects, originate.")
		The participation and collaboration of Abzu in such larger projects requires a reassessment of its selection practices and goals.
		It's not yet clear what directions Abzu will take in the future, but it is certain we will have to face the application of more rigorous (and explicit) standards, as well as design and implementation of a more sophisticated interface.
	www.ariadne.ac.uk /issue21/web-editor (2657 words)

	Enki's journey to Nibru: translation
		In those remote days, when the fates were determined; in a year when An brought about abundance, and people broke through the earth like herbs and plants -- then the lord of the abzu, king Enki, Enki, the lord who determines the fates, built up his temple entirely from silver and lapis lazuli.
		An artfully made bright crenellation rising out from the abzu was erected for lord Nudimmud.
		Temple at the edge of the engur, a lion in the midst of the abzu; lofty temple of Enki, which bestows wisdom on the Land; your cry, like that of a mighty rising river, reaches (?) king Enki.
	www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk /section1/tr114.htm (1036 words)

	ABZU DESIGNS ::: Custom Jewelry at it's Finest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Abzu Designs is a custom order oriented company.
		While most of our work is made to order, we do have one item that we stock.
		Abzu Designs has been the dream and passion of it's founder Andre' Olivier.
	www.abzudesigns.com /page1.htm (218 words)

	Internet allows 24-hour access to Oriental Institute
		They also can access Abzu: A Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet, the Oriental Institute's first exclusively electronic publication.
		Like many other such documents, Abzu is written in a programming language that allows the user to select a given title in the bibliography and be immediately transported to that document, regardless of its location on the Internet.
		Additional materials are continuously being added to Abzu, and refinements of the indexes are made on an almost-daily basis, Jones said.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /950119/internet.shtml (672 words)

	Nammu - Ancient Near East.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to some traditions within Mesopotamian belief, Nammu was the primeval mother goddess who gave birth to An (heaven) and Ki (earth), as well as to several other primeval deities.
		Nammu was particularly identified as the mother of Enki/Ea, lord of the Abzu, the vast freshwater ocean thought to lie beneath the Earth.
		Indeed, the name of Nammu was written in cuneiform script with the same sign as engur - a synonym of Abzu - suggesting that she was thought of as a personification of this subterreanean ocean, the domain of her son.
	www.ancientneareast.net /religion_mesopotamian/gods/nammu.html (118 words)

	Egyptology News: ABZU Updated
		Alternatively you can always post a comment about something already posted by clicking on the orange "comments" link which appears at the end of every post.
		If you haven't come across ABZU, it is located at http://www.etana.org/abzu/.
		In their own words, ABZU is a guide to the rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East via the Internet.
	egyptology.blogspot.com /2005/01/abzu-updated.html (222 words)

	[No title]
		It was anciently believed that wells, springs, rivers and streams sprang from a freshwater ocean which lay under the earth in the Abzu or Engur.
		The Abzu was the particular realm of the wise god Enki, his wife Damgalnuna and his mother Nammu, and was also inhabited by a number of creatures subordinate to him.
		Since in some traditions it was necessary to cross a river to reach the nether world, the river was identified with the abzu.
	www.chronofus.net /inanna/concepts.htm (5194 words)

	Ninurta and the Turtle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the shrine, in the abzu he stirred up a dark flood-storm.
		By the house the minister Isimud opposed Ninurta.
		Against Ninurta, Enki fashioned a turtle from the clay of the abzu.
	www.earth-history.com /Sumer/sumer-ninurta-turtle.htm (610 words)

	Ninurta and the Turtle - www.GatewaysToBabylon.com
		B9 Father Enki in the abzu knew what had been said.
		B10-14 The chick Anzu took the hero Ninurta by his hand and drew near with him to Enki's place, the abzu.
		B36-46 Against Ninurta, Enki fashioned a turtle from the clay of the abzu.
	www.gatewaystobabylon.com /myths/texts/ninurta/ninuurtle.htm (889 words)

	Sumer: Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		God of the Earth and water and of vegetable and animal marsh life in Enki contrary to the translation of his name, Enki is not the lord of the Earth, but of the abzu (the watery abyss and also semen) and of wisdom.
		This contradiction leads Kramer and Maier to postulate that he was once known as En-kur, lord of the underworld, which either contained or was contained in the Abzu.
		He did struggle with Kur as mentioned in the prelude to "Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Underworld", and presumably was victorious and thereby able to claim the title "Lord of Kur" (the realm).
	www.crystalinks.com /sumerian2.html (1862 words)

	Burning Wheel :: Fire, Wood, Metal, and Dice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Word on the street is that rpgers tend to like a little number crunch with their roleplay.
		It was salvaged from the cataclysm by Ace.
		This is something that is not mentioned in the basic rules, but I wanted to let you know how we have been playing it.
	www.burningwheel.org /html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index&catid=11&topic=&allstories=1 (513 words)

	Mellon grant will boost Abzu archival resource of the University's Oriental Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Oriental Institute’s premier Internet portal for the study of the ancient Near East, Abzu, is about to become a more powerful resource as a result of a $100,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant that will benefit a number of institutions.
		The new funding will allow ETANA to link Abzu to a more robust database and make it part of the developing ETANA comprehensive portal for ancient Near Eastern studies.
		Charles Jones, Research Archivist at the Oriental Institute, who is editor and creator of Abzu, said, “The Oriental Institute, including the Research Archives and the Abzu project, is pleased to be a partner in ETANA.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /010816/abzu-grant.shtml (355 words)

	Inana and Enki: translation
		When the maiden had entered the abzu and Eridug, when Inana had entered the abzu and Eridug, she got butter cake to eat.
		So it came about that Enki and Inana were drinking beer together in the abzu, and enjoying the taste of sweet wine.
		Has he duplicitously sent you to me as a messenger?" Now as these words were still in her mouth, he got the fifty lahama of the subterranean waters to seize hold of the Boat of Heaven.
	www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk /section1/tr131.htm (3722 words)

	Oannes - Second Part
		In the ancient legends of the Sumerians and Babylonians about the god Enki, who was the god who warned mankind about the Deluge so that the Ark could be constructed, Enki was said to sleep in a freshwater receptacle or chamber shaped like the Ark, called the Abzu.
		the Abzu as a mythical place where the life influencing powers reside and where their results, as well as the means to influence their effects, originate; 4.
		It has also been said that he was the same entity as Enki or Ea.
	www.geocities.com /dominorus/oannes_2.html (1889 words)

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