101 Myths of the Bible: how ancient scribes - Conscious Evolution TV

Myths of the Beginning 63
The seeder plough and ploughing had not yet been instituted for the knocked under
and downed people.
No [one of ] all the countries were planting in furrows.
Mankind of [those] distant days, since Shakan [the god of flocks] had not [yet]
come on the dry lands, did not know arraying themselves in prime cloth, mankind
walked about naked.
In those days, there being no snakes, being no scorpions, being no lions, being no hyenas,
being no wolves, mankind had no opponent, fear and terror did not exist.
(Lines 1–15.)
When Anu, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursaga
fashioned the black-headed [people(—i.e., the Sumerians)],
they made the small animals [that come up] from [out of ] the earth come forth in
abundance
and had let there be, as befits [it], gazelles, wild donkeys, and four-footed beasts in
the desert. (Lines 47–50.)
The text resumes after a gap of about thirty-seven lines with an indication that
kingship had been established from heaven and that the designated leader should
oversee the labor of the others and teach the nation“to follow unerringly like cattle!”
The view set forth above shares many similarities with the portrayals in Genesis.
As in the biblical story, it focuses narrowly on the need to develop farming and the
nakedness of humanity. It also tells us that helpful creatures were brought forth from
the ground. And, implicit in the Sumerian text, humanity knows nothing about
morality. People existed to serve the gods and follow direction like cattle. The king,
representing the gods, would teach them what they needed to know.
The above text has no story about an expulsion from paradise, but in the few
remaining passages preserved on the tablet we have an account of the building of the
first cities. This continues the parallels to the Genesis story line, which tells us that
Cain, son of Adam and Eve, built the first city after the expulsion.