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But there was als a religious reason for Eridu. The city is was located on a small hill ringed by a depression, in which subterranean water collected. This surrounding area was never less than a swamp and in the rainy season formed a sizeable lake. It was thus a configuration that conformed neatly to Mesoptamian ideas of the Cosmos, which pictured the earth as a disc surrounded by a huge body of water. In mirroring this configuration, Eridu became a sacred spot. Petr Charvat says that Eridu was believed to containe the source of all wisdom and that it was the seat of the god of knowledge. He says the 'first ingelligible universal religion seems to have been born' in Eridu, in which worship involved the use of triad of colours ... Earthly existence was affirmed by the use of red, death by the use of black, and eternal life ( and purity) through white. Ideas: a history of thought and invention, by Peter Watson. p. 75

I wonder how it feels to create a religion, to realize for the first time that there's god of wisdom that lives in your neighbourhood.