EA

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• EA (noun)
  The noun EA has 1 sense:

1. the Babylonian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki; as one of the supreme triad including Anu and Bel he was assigned control of the watery element

  Familiarity information: EA used as a noun is very rare.

• EA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Babylonian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki; as one of the supreme triad including Anu and Bel he was assigned control of the watery element

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Semitic deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites)

Domain region:

Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq)

 Context examples 

Dr Worthington explains: Ea’s lines are a verbal trick which can be understood in different ways which are phonetically identical.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

While Ea’s message seems to promise a rain of food, its hidden meaning warns of the Flood.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

The god Ea manipulates language and misleads people into doing his will because it serves his self-interest.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

Ea is clearly a master wordsmith who is able to compress multiple simultaneous meanings into one duplicitous utterance.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

Dr Martin Worthington’s new research analysing the word play in the story has uncovered the duplicitous language of a Babylonian god called Ea, who was motivated by self-interest.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

In his new book launched today (November 26) titled Ea’s Duplicity in the Gilgamesh Flood story, he explores the tricks of ‘wily Ea’, who is also known as the ‘crafty god’ and the ‘trickster god’.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

Dr Worthington, a Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, said: “Ea tricks humanity by spreading fake news. He tells the Babylonian Noah, known as Uta–napishti, to promise his people that food will rain from the sky if they help him build the ark. What the people don’t realise is that Ea’s nine-line message is a trick: it is a sequence of sounds that can be understood in radically different ways, like English ‘ice cream’ and ‘I scream’.###!!!###

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

The music had died down as the ceremony began and now a long cheer floated in at the window, followed by intermittent cries of "Yea—ea—ea!" and finally by a burst of jazz as the dancing began.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)