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125 for the grains they establish a place. To the workmen they give the plough and the yoke... The shepherd makes abundance in the sheepfold; The young woman sprouting abundance brings; she lifts her head in the field: The woolly-creature and grains that are planted came forth in splendor. Abundance was given to the congregated people. The revolutionary agricultural tool—a simple, but ingeniously designed, wooden implement—the plow, was at first pulled, as the above text states, by putting a yoke on the farm workers. But then Enki "brought into existence the larger living creatures'"—domes- ticated cattlke—and bulls replaced people as pullers of the plow (Fig. 34). Thus, the texts conclude, did the gods "increase the fer- tility of the land." While Ninurta was busy damming the mountains flanking Meso- potamia and draining its plains. Enki returned to Africa to assess the damage the Deluge had caused there. As it turned out, Enlil and his offspring ended up controlling all the high ground from the southeast (Elam, entrusted to Inan- na/Ishtar) to the northwest (the Taurus Mountains and Asia Minor, given to Ishkur/Adad), with the highland arching in between given to Ninurta in the south and Nannar/Sin in the north. Enlil himself retained the central position overlooking the olden E.DIN; the Landing Place on the Cedar Mountain was put under the command of Utu/Shamash. Where were Enki and his clan to go? As Enki surveyed Africa it was evident to him that the Abzu alone—the continent's southern part—was insufficient. Just as in Mankind Emerges Abundance had come from heaven.