There is a word used in ancient writings which might wrongly be taken to mean a deity: EA or in its Sumerian version ENKI. It appears in texts some of which might have extremely ancient origins so it might have been a word in use in Enoch’s time yet did Enoch ever mention it? Does the Book of Enoch translated in various languages, but not available in languages of the time of Enoch, ever mention concepts which might be Enoch’s use of this word EA or ENKI? The word ENKI appears to be composed of EN and KI. KI is possibly a word meaning Earth but might have originally been KIG so it is not clear what significance it has in ENKI. The part of the word EN means lord. Some say the actual original word might have been E-A meaning house of water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enki) which seems plausible given the strong associations between EA and Eridu, capital city in earliest times of the Sumerians and workplace of Adapa. Sumerian is ENKI and later Akkadian is EA. The mention of EA or ENKI in the ancient text of Adapa and the South Wind, perhaps originating with Adapa himself and perhaps originally predating or contemporary with the Book of Enoch original texts, speaks of advice given to Adapa by Enki which led him to grave disappointment even though it seemed very wise. The concept of upspringing water is linked to Enki along with wisdom. There is perhaps a possibility Enki is the word given to wisdom which comes as what we would call flashes of inspiration or just inspiration in general. So Inspiration might have over time become personified and eventually thought of as a deity, much as is done with Wisdom in Eastern thinking and Justice in Roman thinking. Enoch did enphasise wisdom and heavenly inspiration as like a well of water springing up within the righteous. Jesus later developed this applying it to the Holy Spirit. Is Enki the Holy Spirit? Enoch too wrote of springs of water as a parable of the Holy Spirit and of other spirits which might be good or bad. One other (sad) consideration might be that in those times after the fallen angels taught diviniation, divination drew on invocation of spirits for inspired counsel and the source of such counsel was collectively called Enki or Ea. Enoch did write praise of God that God “fills the earth with spirits”. These spirits might have given the inspiration to prophets and been thought to inspire outcomes of divination too. Even in the Mosaic Law much later which on the whole condems divination, divining by priests was allowed within strict controls where only the Urim and Thumin could be used and only by designated priests. Later still the first apostles cast lots to divine God’s appointment of a replacement for Judas. Balaam might have used divination in his prophecies and even his donkey once became a kind of mouthpiece for divine counsel. So the Adapa and the South Wind text might hint at such counsels as being considered inspired or from heavenly origin wisdom as being collectvely ascribed to Enki (Ea). Another possibility is found in the two Sumerian names for Enoch: Enmendurana and Enmenduranki (the names for Enoch used in the Sumerian King Lists). Ea could be an abbreviation of Enmendurana and Enki could be an abbreviation of Enmenduranki. So it might be that Enki/Ea is Enoch.
