Concerning the feature of Sumerian deities, Samuel Noah Kramer points out that the Sumerians cherished goodness and truth, law and order, justice and freedom, righteousness and straightforwardness, mercy and compassion[i], notwithstanding in ancient times. These moral qualities and ethical values would have been bestowed on the Sumerians by the deities, they believed. In this sense, the law of the Sumer was a kind of a sacred law.
[i] Samuel Noah Kramer, History Begins at Sumer, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1981, pp. 101.
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