Round 1: Tossup 16

This figure teaches a non-sapient raven to maintain a garden using counterweight blocks, and then appeases a wrathful goddess by locating the rapist who ruined the garden. That goddess repeatedly asks this figure “where are my functions?” at the end of a text titled for this figure “and the world order.” This figure wins a contest by assigning societal roles to disabled, infertile, and genital-less people created by Ninmah. While drunk, this figure gives away heroism, deceit, various crafts, and other mes (“maze”) of civilization (15[1])to a goddess who flees on the Boat of (*) Heaven, taking power (-5[1])from Eridu to her city. This figure creates (-5[1])genderless beings from his fingernail dirt (10[1])to rescue that goddess after she is stripped at the seven gates of Ereshkigal’s underworld. For 10 points, name this Sumerian god of (-5[1])water and wisdom. ■END■ (10[2]0[3])

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