Book Club Questions

If Enki was a boy today would he be classified as special needs?

The book uses the behaviour of pigeons to illustrate that all animals have sub conscious urges that drive them.

• What examples can you think of for modern day humans?
• What do you think of Enki’s question of whether this is how the gods direct people’s lives?
• If gods are just abstractions then what do they abstract?

There is a single hint in the book that the Priests don’t believe there are gods at all. Do you think they did believe?

In times of war, leaders seem to emerge as though they were specifically made for times of tumult and upheaval. Was Nigmah’s fate just bad timing or were there other factors?

What ages do you think the main characters were? Enki’s family, the Priests?

Ashur ministers to the people but is the priest of Anu. Marduk runs the administration but is the priest of Inanna. Why does it seem their roles are reversed?