Atra-Hasis was a central figure in the ‘creation’ and ‘deluge’ accounts chronicled by the Sumerians hundreds of years before the first book of the Bible was ever written…
Atra-Hasis (“exceedingly wise”) is the protagonist and namesake of an 18th century BCE Akkadian epic. The Atra-Hasis tablets include both a creation myth and a flood account, which is one of three surviving Babylonian deluge stories. The oldest known copy of the epic tradition concerning Atrahasis can be dated to the reign of Hammurabi’s great-grandson, Ammi-Saduqa (1646–1626 BCE), but various Old Babylonian fragments exist.
According to one version of the Sumerian king list, in the years just before the Flood swept over the earth, Ubara-Tutu (who is named as the father of Atrahasis in Gilgamesh) was king of Shuruppak, where some of the earliest writings known to the entire world have been discovered. According to a different version of the Sumerian king list, Atrahasis, called there by his Sumerian name Zuisudra, himself ruled the city Shuruppak, preceded by his father who was named like the city. A wisdom composition known as The Instructions of Shuruppak is now attested on clay tablets from the Early Dynastic period in the early third millennium BC, and contains sage advice given by Shuruppak to his son Zuisudra. Thus, Atrahasis was a notable figure even at the dawn of history.
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in the first picture shown, who is that holding a baby horse?> i can see that ? are you showing this.
Thank you greatly appreciate it
I followed you channel and I have listen to your extraordinary works since 2018 when i first came upon the The Emerald Tablets of Thoth.
And the Book of Enoch
So the Lord God in the bible is Zeus? Iam asking
It's really crazy how many civilizations have flood stories ("myths") that include a god becoming angry because the humans had become too noisy….
…here, in the Atrahasis, it seems like "the far-sighted Enki" kind of instigated all of this with his advice😬, but Enki is the one who ended up saving Mankind, and clearly had love for humankind/Earthlings…