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 (15[1])genital-less people created by Ninmah. While drunk, this figure gives away heroism, deceit, various crafts, and other mes (“maze”) of civilization to a goddess who flees on the Boat of (*) Heaven, taking power from Eridu to her city. This figure creates genderless beings from his fingernail dirt to rescue that goddess after she is stripped at the seven gates of Ereshkigal’s underworld. For 10 points, name this Sumerian god of water and wisdom. ■END■ (10[1])

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