recorded in various versions on clay tablets, named for its protagonist, Atrahasis ('exceedingly wise'). The Atra-Hasis tablets include both a cosmological...

sentences copied more or less directly from the Atrahasis version to the Gilgamesh epic: The Epic of Atrahasis provides additional information on the flood...

Mesopotamia. Though sometimes synonymous with the term "Anunnaki", in the Atrahasis myth the Igigi were the younger beings who were servants of the Annunaki...

characters who are protagonists of Near Eastern flood myths, including Atrahasis, Utnapishtim and the biblical Noah. Although each story displays its own...

thwarts his half-brother's plans by teaching Atrahasis how to counter these threats. Each time, Atrahasis asks the population to abandon worship of all...

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...

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...

working at the British Museum 1961–1964, he rediscovered the Epic of Atrahasis, which had lain unrecognised in a drawer for some decades. From 1964 to...

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...

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...

revised edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 4 Mark, Joshua. "The Atrahasis Epic: The Great Flood & the Meaning of Suffering". World History Encyclopedia...

springs, rivers, fountains, rain and even the Flood, as described in Atrahasis, originated from the Abzu. In Mesopotamian cosmogony, it is referred to...

language epics, the Atrahasis and the Epic of Gilgamesh. The name of the hero, according to the version concerned, was Ziusudra, Atrahasis, or Utnapishtim...

is_killed-3.SG.PASS-PRS then this man is a thief and hence to be killed. Atrahasis Epic (early 2nd millennium BC) Enûma Elish (c. 18th century BC) Amarna...

corresponds to a month in the human period of gestation. The Babylonian Epic of Atrahasis states that humans were created by Nintu (Ninhursag) from mixing clay...

ideology. Outside of the Anzu myth, similarities between Enuma Elish and the Atrahasis epic were also pointed out. Both Apsu and Enlil wanted to destroy a source...

The earliest written flood myth is found in the Mesopotamian Epic of Atrahasis and Epic of Gilgamesh texts. The Encyclopædia Britannica says "These mythologies...

ISBN 978-0-7735-2427-9. Dalley defends traditional opinion: "The name or epithet of Atrahasis is used for the skillful god of craftmanship Kothar-wa-hasis in Ugaritic...

mentioned and Inanna dies as a result of a verdict of divine judges. In Atrahasis, Enlil initially plans to rely on Namtar to deal with noise created by...

where they receive individual names, as well as in a late version of Atrahasis. The name of the Šassūrātu is an Akkadian derivative of the Sumerian word...

pp. 902–5 Dalley defends traditional opinion: "The name or epithet of Atrahasis is used for the skillful god of craftmanship Kothar-wa-hasis in Ugaritic...

narratives about his marriage, Enlil and Sud and Enlil and Ninlil, in Atrahasis, in the Anzû narrative, and in other compositions. Hymns dedicated to...

Adapa Story 101–103 Adapa Atra-Hasis 1.130 Atra-Hasis 104–106, 512–514 Atrahasis 1.131 Etana 114–118, 517 Etana Epic of Gilgamesh 1.132 Gilgamesh 72–99...

a goddess of marriage, she is referenced in the Epic of Gilgamesh and Atrahasis. In the Hurrian Song of Release she is portrayed as the goddess of Ebla...

The Etemmu is considered to be the divine aspect of humanity. In the Atrahasis story, Enki, with the assistance of Wé, imbues this aspect with the divine...

childlessness of qadištu, as well as nadītu and kulmašītu, was provided in Atrahasis, but the relevant passage cannot be restored fully. It remains uncertain...

British School of Archaeology in Iraq, pp. 31–71. Clay, Albert T. (2003). Atrahasis: An Ancient Hebrew Deluge Story. Book Tree. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-58509-228-4...

pages 148–162. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977. Tikva Frymer-Kensky. "The Atrahasis Epic and Its Significance for Our Understanding of Genesis 1–9". Biblical...

Lord of Aratta and Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana, Mesopotamian religion) Atrahasis (Mesopotamian religion) Enuma Elish (Babylonian religion) The Descent...

like Enuma Elish and Epic of Atrahasis, and finally the Dynasty of Dunnum placed in its own category. In the Atrahasis Epic, the Anunnaki gods force...