“… Together Enki (another name for Ea, the god of wisdom) and Nintu, the mother-goddess, decided upon a plan. The ringleader of the rebel gods was killed and from his blood mixed with clay Enki and Nintu fashioned a kind of primitive humankind (lullu, or lullu-awilu), seven males and seven females. The idea was that henceforth humankind would bear the work of provisioning the gods so that the latter might rest. Henceforth, humans would till the fields, maintain the irrigation works, and in general, provide all the labor necessary for maintaining the gods in their proper rank. In short, humans were created to be servants of the gods. Subsequent events, however, reveal that the gods were naive in thinking that their inchoate creation was the perfect solution. They had merely traded one problem for another. As humankind rapidly multiplied on earth, so did the ‘din’ that they raised on earth. …”