The pictogram for ‘ab’ is a house, or a thatched hut, meaning father, house-father. The pictogram for 'zu' is a full measuring cup and means knowledge, scholar, wisdom. In Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, it is referred to as the primeval sea below the void space of the underworld ( Kur) and the earth ( Ma) above. Lakes, springs, rivers, wells, and other sources of fresh water were thought to draw their water from the abzu. The Abzu or Apsu ( Sumerian: □□, romanized: abzu Akkadian: □□, romanized: apsû), also called engur ( Cuneiform: □, LAGAB×HAL Sumerian: engur Akkadian: engurru-lit., ab='water' zu='deep', recorded in Greek as Ἀπασών Apasṓn ), is the name for fresh water from underground aquifers which was given a religious fertilising quality in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology.
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