EA

Volume V · p. 27 · 1950 · Non-Christian Religions

English translation · Testo originale italiano

E A. - One of the principal male deities of the pantheon of the Sumerians, the Babylonians and Assyrians and of other nations of the ancient East. The name is Sumerian and perhaps means "house of water."

He is the god of fresh and salt water, thus both of the water of rivers and springs and of that of the sea and the abyss (apso), at the bottom of which he dwells. Since water cleanses, he is the god of purifications, and furthermore of exorcisms. E. is therefore regarded as the exorcist among the gods, their dipu.

By means of the water of E. the priest-exorcist performs his purifications and his exorcisms. Furthermore E. is a formative god, who presides over the arts, very wise, a counselor of the gods. Giuseppe Furlani

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By Giuseppe Furlani

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), p. 27.

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Chicago

Furlani, Giuseppe. “Ea.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, p. 27. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/ea.

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Furlani, Giuseppe. “Ea.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, p. 27. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ea.

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@incollection{ec5_ea,
  author    = {Furlani, Giuseppe},
  title     = {Ea},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ea}
}