According to Sumerian mythology the god Enki or Enlil create a servant of the gods, humankind, out of clay and blood. See Enki and the Making of Man In another Sumerian story, both Enki and Ninmah create humans from the clay bowl of the Abzu, modern day Africa, in which the ovum of a humanoid is fertilized with the sperm of the Anunnaki and inserted back into an Anunnaki heroine. [1] According to Genesis 2:7 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."