Sumerians don’t have a single creation myth. The gods Enki, Enlil and Ninmah are all said to have created mankind in different stories. None of their creation myths involve giants.
I’m not an expert so take anything I say with a grain of salt… Yes, they were gods. They were often called Anunnaki, and Anunnaki are often called giants by conspiracy theorists, ancient alien believers, and christians who equate them to Nephilim, who they believe were giants that actually existed. From what I can tell, the only people who didn’t call the Anunnaki giants were Sumerians
They also don’t have consistent or universal understanding of their myths, they have endless stories that contradict each other and themselves. God’s that fight among humans and bathe in rivers also control fhe heavens and can carry half the planet.
It’s incredibly hard to know what any one image represents, there’s no reason they wouldn’t have drawn gods as bigger versions of people and no reason they wouldn’t have.inclluded children in images so without doing a study of where it was discovered, surrounding artifacts and etc everything is a guess. It could be the punchline to a joke or a reference to an actual short person or all sorts of other forgotten reasons
Sumerians don’t have a single creation myth. The gods Enki, Enlil and Ninmah are all said to have created mankind in different stories. None of their creation myths involve giants.
Were those not gods in the creation myths? Were the gods not described as giants?
I’m not an expert so take anything I say with a grain of salt… Yes, they were gods. They were often called Anunnaki, and Anunnaki are often called giants by conspiracy theorists, ancient alien believers, and christians who equate them to Nephilim, who they believe were giants that actually existed. From what I can tell, the only people who didn’t call the Anunnaki giants were Sumerians
They also don’t have consistent or universal understanding of their myths, they have endless stories that contradict each other and themselves. God’s that fight among humans and bathe in rivers also control fhe heavens and can carry half the planet.
It’s incredibly hard to know what any one image represents, there’s no reason they wouldn’t have drawn gods as bigger versions of people and no reason they wouldn’t have.inclluded children in images so without doing a study of where it was discovered, surrounding artifacts and etc everything is a guess. It could be the punchline to a joke or a reference to an actual short person or all sorts of other forgotten reasons