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    Atra-Hasis (redirect from Atrahasis Epic)
    recorded in various versions on clay tablets, named for its protagonist, Atrahasis ('exceedingly wise'). The Atra-Hasis tablets include both a cosmological...
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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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    Igigi (section Atrahasis)
    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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    characters who are protagonists of Near Eastern flood myths, including Atrahasis, Utnapishtim and the biblical Noah. Although each story displays its own...
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    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 population 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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  • 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...
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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...
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  • revised edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 4 Mark, Joshua. "The Atrahasis Epic: The Great Flood & the Meaning of Suffering". World History Encyclopedia...
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    springs, rivers, fountains, rain and even the Flood, as described in Atrahasis, originated from the Abzu. In Mesopotamian cosmogony, it is referred to...
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    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...
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    language epics, the Atrahasis and the Epic of Gilgamesh. The name of the hero, according to the version concerned, was Ziusudra, Atrahasis, or Utnapishtim...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    The earliest written flood myth is found in the Mesopotamian Epic of Atrahasis and Epic of Gilgamesh texts. The Encyclopædia Britannica says "These mythologies...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    narratives about his marriage, Enlil and Sud and Enlil and Ninlil, in Atrahasis, in the Anzû narrative, and in other compositions. Hymns dedicated to...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • childlessness of qadištu, as well as nadītu and kulmašītu, was provided in Atrahasis, but the relevant passage cannot be restored fully. It remains uncertain...
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  • 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...
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    pages 148–162. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977. Tikva Frymer-Kensky. "The Atrahasis Epic and Its Significance for Our Understanding of Genesis 1–9". Biblical...
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    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...
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    Lord of Aratta and Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana, Mesopotamian religion) Atrahasis (Mesopotamian religion) Enuma Elish (Babylonian religion) The Descent...
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    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...
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  • thought to have been taken from another literary composition, the Myth of Atrahasis. The city expanded to its greatest extent at the end of the Early Dynastic...
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