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    Mummu

    Mummu is a Mesopotamian deity. His name is an Akkadian loanword from Sumerian "umun", which
    translates as "main body, bulk, life-giving force" and "knowledge" as the active part in contrary to the more
    lethargical primordial forces Tiamat and Apsu (Sumerian Abzu).[1]

    He appeared in the Babylonian creation myth, the Enuma Elish as the vizier of the primeval gods Apsû, the
    fresh water, and Tiamat, the salt water.[2] and sometimes referred to as their son. Towards the middle of
    Enuma Elish, Ea locks Mummu and Apsu away. Mummu is also one of the names given to Marduk, the
    ultimate victor over Tiamat.[1]

    Mummu is a craftsman, the personification of practical knowledge and technical skill. As the third of the
    primordial gods, Mummu symbolizes the mental world, the logos.[1]

    The word mummu appears also in the Sumerian myth of Zu where Imdugud, whose name is translated as
    'flashing wind', steals the Tablets of Destiny but in turn is defeated by Ningirsu. In their battle an arrow in
    midair is ordered to return to its 'mummu', which in this case meant the shaft's return to the living reed from
    which it was cut, the guts return to the animal's rump and finally the feathers to the bird's wings. Therefore,
    in a larger magnitude, mummu is detransformation, the return to chaos, demanifacturing. [1]

    In popular culture
    In popular writing, Mummu is mentioned in Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Trilogy as
    'The Spirit of Pure Chaos'.[3] The KLF, a British 1980s acid house band, used "The Justified Ancients of Mu
    Mu" as an alias, drawing inspiration from Illuminatus! mythology.

    Notes
    1. "Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text" (https://www.ancient.eu/article/225/
    enuma-elish---the-babylonian-epic-of-creation---fu/). Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved
    2019-05-02.
    2. Liebowitz Knapp, Bettina (1997). Women in myth (https://books.google.com/books?id=sey1Eq
    CW4WMC&pg=PA27&dq=Mummu&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_max
    m_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=3). SUNY Press. p. 270. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
    3. Shea, Robert; Wilson, Robert Anton (1983). The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Dell. p. 805.

    References
    Sandars, N. K. Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia. Harmondsworth:
    Penguin, 1971.

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