Sumerian Mythos
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This culture was among man's
first attempts at civilisation,
and it is one of man's first
recorded religions.
Because of this,
the gods are unusually close
to their worshipers and every worshiper is a servant of his or her
god.
We constantly see a willingness
to help that is soon lost to all other mythoi.
Every city has its patron
deity;
all the people belong to
that temple and none other.
All officials of the city
are clerics of the same temple and the
high priest is always the king || queen of that city-state.
The temples have a stepped
pyramid shape in the manner of the Aztec temples.
Sacrifices and gifts to the
deities are all made as items that will dress up altars and the temple
surroundings;
the richer and more valuable
the better.
The clerics themselves make
items to be directly sacrificed to the gods by burning at the same time
that human lives are sacrificed to the gods (primarily condemned criminals).
Each temple has an image
of its god on a raised platform in an inner shrine closed off to the public.
Before the image is a table
used as an altar that has all the gifts of the year placed upon it.
There is a central courtyard
beyond the main entrance for public worship.
The building will have side
chapels and storerooms of several types.
The main entrance to the
temple is set at right angles to the inner temple.
The more important temples
are raised up on artificial hills (or ziggurats) of red
brick.
Clerics serve the best meat
&& drink to the gods on special tables beside altars.
This food is burnt every
night for the gods' USE.
The seventh, fifteenth,
and twenty-fifth days of the month are holy days.
A sacrifice is always held
on the night of the new moon.
There are °°°
degrees of punishment for clerical sins.
| 1 | Committing the first major transgression results in a severe gastro-intestinal disease (as per DMG) for the offending cleric. |
| 2 | The second transgression
results in a punishment of 15 troubles, each worse than the last (though
none are automatically fatal).
Thus, a cleric may be stung by a bee, then sprain an ankle, then suffer food poisoning, etc. |
| 3 | If these warnings are not
enough,
the third transgression results in death of the offending one. |
Any transgression can be
erased in the sight of the deity by a sacrifice sufficient in proportion
to the nature of the offense.
These sacrifices must be
important and/or expensive.
Clerics of this pantheon
must shave all hair from their bodies and wear kilts and robes
of white with colourful
borders.
The shape and colour <>
of the border indicates the cleric's patron deity.
Female clerics wear rounded
conical hats to cover their baldness.
Note: The geographical
AREA of the Sumerian mythos is almost exactly the same as the Babylonian.
Though separated by time,
they share similar cultures and ideals.
(This overlap is in much the same manner as the Greek && Roman mythoi.)
While we could have listed
these groups together,
we thought there was enough
diversity between the two sections to warrant separation.
In some cases,
this diversity has been
deliberately increased in order to prevent overlap.
| All alignments | - |
| Lovers | - |
| Warriors | Inanna |
| LG | Enlil |
| NG | Enlil |
| CG | Enlil, Nanna-Sin, Utu |
| LN | Enki |
| N | Ki, Nin-Hursag |
| CN | - |
| LE | - |
| NE | - |
| CE | - |
Sumerian Tablet Translation:
Enlil in the E-Kur
Sumerian Tablet Translations:
Enki
and the World Order Part 1/5