Mar 06, 2011 · The Atrahasis is the Akkadian/Babylonian epic of the Great Flood sent by the gods to destroy human life.Only the good man, Atrahasis (his name translates as `exceedingly wise') was warned of the impending deluge by the god Enki (also known as Ea) who instructed him to build an ark to save himself. Atrahasis heeded the words of the god, loaded two of every kind …

Merge w/Atrahasis Epic. As suggested by The Dogandpony. Looks like a good idea to me. John (Jwy) 14:46, 14 February 2006 (UTC) [] Without a doubt. --JFK 16:30, 8 March 2006 (UTC) []Wiki-incest. The second half of the first para, and all of the third, are cut and paste from the Wiki article on Noah's Ark.First, this shows a touching but possibly misplaced faith in the acuracy of the …

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Mythologies. One example of a flood myth is the Epic of Gilgamesh.Many scholars believe that this account was copied from the Akkadian Atra-Hasis, which dates to the 18th century BCE. In the Gilgamesh flood myth, the highest god, Enlil, decides to destroy the world with a flood because humans have become too noisy.The god Ea, who had created humans out of clay and …

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Atra-Hasis ("exceedingly wise") is the protagonist of an 18th-century BC Akkadian epic recorded in various versions on clay tablets. The Atra-Hasis tablets include both a creation myth and a flood account, which is one of three surviving Babylonian deluge stories. The name "Atra-Hasis" also appears on one of the Sumerian king lists as king of Shuruppak in the times before a flood.

K.3375. The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Many scholars believe that the flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who used the flood story from the Epic of Atrahasis. [1] A short reference to the flood myth is also present in the much older Sumerian Gilgamesh ...

Ziusudra (Old Babylonian: ???????????????? zi-ud-su₃-ra₂, Neo-Assyrian: ???????????? zi-sud-da, Greek: Ξίσουθρος, translit. Xísouthros) of Shuruppak (c. 2900 BC) is listed in the WB-62 Sumerian King List recension as the last king of Sumer prior to the Great Flood.He is subsequently recorded as the hero of the Sumerian creation myth and appears in the writings of Berossus as ...