The Sumerian legend 'Enki and Ninmah' deals with a brief account of mankind's creation. The account confirms that in 'the days of yore' the Annunaki were forced to dig out canals of the underworld, while their senior gods, such as Enki, lay back and relaxed.
Bear in mind, before proceeding any further, that the Annunaki were 'denizens of the underworld' [the subterranean regions of the Earth] and therefore it would have been impossible for mankind to have relieved the Annunaki of their tolls, or serve them unless 'mankind' too was created to exist in the underworld.
The Annunaki began to grumble & complain about their tolls; their complaints eventually being overheard by Nammu, mother of Enki. It was Nammu who first devised the idea of creating mankind to relieve the Annunaki of their duties.
The Lullu (mankind) was then created using clay within the underworld.
There is another text known as 'Creation of man by the mother goddess' which refers to mankind being created from clay within a planetary womb [the Moon?] ....
the great gods called to the goddess
Ninharsag the wise midwife of the gods
thou art the mother womb
the creatress of mankind
create a Lullu and let him bear the yoke
let man bear the load of the gods
The commission was apparently carried out using 14 mother wombs ...
far sighted Enki and wise Ninharsag
went into the house of fate
fourteen mother wombs were assembled
he trod the clay in her presence
when she had finished her incantation
she pinched off fourteen pieces of clay
and set seven pieces on the right
seven on the left
between them she placed a brick
of the seven and seven mother wombs
seven brought forth males
seven brought forth females ...
The process sounds remarkably like a creation of man under laboratory conditions using humanoid birth goddesses ... the clay pieces being mere representations of the fourteen 'cloned' beings; effigies for the ritual!
Maybe this took place within the Moon -with reference to a planetary womb? Hybridisation? The reference to Lullu in the way it sounds comes across that this is a process which had been done by the Annunaki before (on other worlds - other races of man?) ... if the fourteen birth goddesses were already humanoid? or human? Then other races of mankind already existed on the earth? This was then the specific clonisation of a designer race for the purpose of mining the underworld on Earth?
Interesting.