The Hindus and Buddhists revere Mount Meru, also known as Sumeru, at the axis of the earth they say in the Himalayas, yet the fulcrum of civilization after the Flood of Ziusudra (Zeus otter) descended at Kish wrote the Mesopotamians, near where was built the Tower of Babel, the first Sumeru by Nimrod, a son of Kush, in the land of Sumer.