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Dr Camilla Hoel @camilla_hoel@hcommons.social

2/22/2026, 7:50:14 AM

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See also that business with the rib.
And my previous caveat. https://hcommons.social/@camilla_hoel/116028360580932540

Cover of The Sumerian World edited by Harriet Crawford. Title in blue on a black background, though showing a gold ornament of a cool, but shy-looking goat (?) with a very cool feathered coat, standing on its hind legs behind a golden tree —I am guessing somehow related to Asherah.

Dr Camilla Hoel (@camilla_hoel@hcommons.social)

Attached: 1 image (I am not an expert on Sumer. I have just made a point of reading bits of this book as a treat on the weekends.)

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Dr Camilla Hoel @camilla_hoel@hcommons.social

2/22/2026, 8:02:29 AM

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The business with the rib (which I thought I had gone on about at length, but now cannot find). From Kramer p 149

w storyteller find it more fitting to choose a rib rather than any other organ of the body for the fashioning of the woman whose name, Eve, according to the Biblical notion, means approximately "she who makes live". The reason becomes quite clear if we assume a Sumerian literary background, such as that represented by our Dilmun poem, to underly the Biblical paradise tale; for in our Sumerian poem, one of Enki's sick organs is the rib. Now the Sumerian word for "rib" is ti (pronounced tee); the goddess created for the healing of Enki's rib was therefore called in Sumerian Nin-ti, "the Lady of the rib." But the Sumerian word ti also means "to make live." The name Nin-ti may thus mean "the Lady who makes live" as well as "the Lady of the rib." In Sumerian literature, therefore, "the Lady of the rib" came to be identified with "the Lady who makes live" through what may be termed a play on words. It was this, one of the most ancient of literary puns, which was carried over and perpetuated in the Biblical paradise story, although there, of course, the pun loses its validity, since the Hebrew words for and "who makes live" have nothing in common.»

Cover of The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character by Samuel Noah Kramer. Black cover with s yellow and black photo of a statue og Gudea merging into the background.

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