Editing Wisdom (section)

==== Mesopotamian mythology ====
In [[Mesopotamian mythology|Mesopotamian religion and mythology]], [[Enki]], also known as Ea, was the god of wisdom and intelligence. Divine wisdom allowed {{clarify|reason=who is designating? what is functioning? what makes a designation providential?|text=the provident designation of functions|date=August 2023}} and the ordering of the cosmos, and it{{ambiguous|reason=what is "it"? the wisdom? the designation?|date=August 2023}} was achieved by humans by following {{transliteration|sux|[[Me (mythology)|me]]}}s (in [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]]: order, rite, righteousness) which maintain balance.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/pdfy-OBb9_axzoPvTFsq4|title=The God Enki in Sumerian Royal Ideology and Mythology|last=Espak|first=Peeter|publisher=Tartu University Press|year=2014|series=Dissertationes Theologiae Universitatis Tartuensis|volume=19|location=Tartu|isbn=9789949195220}}</ref> In addition to [[Sumerian religion|hymns to Enki or Ea]] dating from [[3rd millennium BC|{{BCE|the third millennium}}]], there is among the [[clay tablet]]s of [[Abu Salabikh]] from {{BCE|2600}} (the oldest dated texts), a "Hymn to [[Utu|Shamash]]" which includes the following:<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bonechi|first=Marco|year=2016|title=87) The Pregnant Woman in the Archaic Hymn to Shamash of Sippar|url=http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/NABU-2016-4-DEF.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801055234/http://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/NABU-2016-4-DEF.pdf |archive-date=1 August 2019 |url-status=live|journal=Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires |issue=4 |pages=147–150}}</ref>

{{blockquote|Wide is the courtyard of Shamash night chamber, (just as wide is the womb of) a wise pregnant woman! [[Sin (mythology)|Sin]], his warrior, wise one, heard of the offerings and came down to his fiesta. He is the father of the nation and the father of intelligence}}