Why Enki?

Enki is a god in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian tradition. He was the deity of crafts, mischief, water — freshwater, seawater, and lakewater — intelligence, and creation. As a god associated with water and knowledge, Enki was also a guardian of order in the natural world, mediating between humanity and the forces that shaped daily life.

Enki was linked to the southern stars in a constellation known as Ea, and also to AŠ-IKU, the Field (later the Square of Pegasus), reflecting an early connection between observation of the heavens and understanding of the world below. Beginning around the second millennium BCE, he was sometimes represented by the numeric ideogram “40,” his sacred number. The planet we now call Mercury — associated in Babylonian times with Nabu, the god of writing and wisdom — was earlier identified with Enki himself.