- see
question marks, boxes, or
other symbols instead of
cuneiform script.
Ziusudra (Old
Babylonian Akkadian: 𒍣𒌓𒋤𒁺, romanized: Ṣíusudrá [ṣi₂-u₄-sud-ra₂]...
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habitable for humans. In the
Sumerian flood myth
Eridu Genesis,
Enlil rewards Ziusudra with
immortality for
having survived the
flood and, in the
Babylonian flood...
- 1600 BCE, the hero is King
Ziusudra. This story, the
Sumerian flood myth,
probably derives from an
earlier version. The
Ziusudra version tells how he builds...
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occupying a boat. He is
called by
different names in
different traditions:
Ziusudra ("Life of long days",
rendered Xisuthros, Ξίσουθρος in Berossus) in the...
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Ziusudra (likely a priest), of this
decision and
advises him to
build a boat to save both
himself and one
couple of
every living creature.
Ziusudra builds...
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flood account,
written in the
Sumerian language,
calls the
deluge hero
Ziusudra." However, Yi
Samuel Chen
writes that the
oldest versions of the Epic of...
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admonitory sayings of Šuruppak
addressed to his son and
eventual flood hero
Ziusudra (Akkadian: Utnapishtin).
Otherwise named as one of the five antediluvian...
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Silver Cord, with
references to the epic in the song's lyrics. Atra-Hasis
Ziusudra Enūma Eliš The name
translates roughly as "The
Ancestor is a Young-man"...
- up in the Old
Babylonian Period. Chen also
concludes that the name of "
Ziusudra" as a
flood hero and the idea of the
flood hinted at by that name in the...
- the 17th
century BC (i.e., the Old
Babylonian Empire), the hero is
named Ziusudra, who also
appears in the
Instructions of
Shuruppak as the son of the eponymous...
