The Flood
Very interesting points!
There was a trend in sumerian religion from polytheism to monotheism, in the
sense that they went from a bunch of roughly equivilant gods to having a pair
of god-like folk (one male and one female) to just the male god. This
corresponded with the increased emphasis on the king as being the
personification of god, and thus a diety himself.
Such a trend would be one possible result from the dichotomization you are
talking about, if the hebrew (or proto-hebrew) version was picking up interest
and momentum!
Cheer,
GTL
Greg Laden
Dept. of Anthropology
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138