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Sumerian King Lists. The
oldest known copy of the epic
tradition concerning Atrahasis can be
dated by
colophon (scribal identification) to the
reign of Hammurabi’s...
- Mesopotamia.
Though sometimes synonymous with the term "Anunnaki", in the
Atrahasis myth the
Igigi were the
younger beings who were
servants of the Annunaki...
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sentences copied more or less
directly from the
Atrahasis version to the
Gilgamesh epic: The Epic of
Atrahasis provides additional information on the flood...
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characters who are
protagonists of Near
Eastern flood myths,
including Atrahasis,
Utnapishtim and the
biblical Noah.
Although each
story displays its own...
- long life." In
Babylonian versions, his name is
Atrahasis, but the
meaning is the same. In the
Atrahasis version, the
flood is a
river flood.: 20–27 The...
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thwarts his half-brother's
plans by
teaching Atrahasis how to
counter these threats. Each time,
Atrahasis asks the po****tion to
abandon worship of all...
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including famine, drought, and finally, a
great flood.
Mankind is
saved by
Atrahasis, who was
warned of the
flood by the god Enki and
built a boat to escape...
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among the
heavenly gods. Enki (Ea) also
claims that he did not tell "
Atrahasis" (apparently
referring to Uta-napishtim)
about the flood, but
rather that...
- springs, rivers, fountains, rain, and even the Flood, as
described in
Atrahasis,
originated from the Abzû. In
Mesopotamian cosmogony, it is
referred to...
- one
Egyptian myth) are
reflected in the
primeval history. The myth of
Atrahasis, for example, was the
first to
record a
Great Flood, and may lie behind...
