Context: These deities formed a core pantheon; there were additionally hundreds of minor ones. Sumerian gods could thus have associations with different cities, and their religious importance often waxed and waned with those cities' political power. The gods were said to have created human beings from clay for the purpose of serving them. The temples organized the mass labour projects needed for irrigation agriculture. Citizens had a labor duty to the temple, though they could avoid it by a payment of silver.

Question: What did the Sumerian deities form?
Answer: a core pantheon

Question: What could Sumerian gods be associated with?
Answer: different cities

Question: What did the religious importance of city gods wax and wan with?
Answer: those cities' political power

Question: Why did the gods create human beings from clay?
Answer: for the purpose of serving them

Question: How could a citizen avoid their labor duty to their local temple?
Answer: a payment of silver

Question: What did each Sumerian city have?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What changed with a particular gods popularity?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who made humans for their amusement?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: who organized large building projects?
Answer: Unanswerable