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๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐: "๐๐ป๐๐บ๐ฎ ๐๐น๐ถ๐๐ต" ๐ฏ๐ ๐ง๐ถ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ต๐ ๐. ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐, ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐. -
Stephany's direct translation is a marvelous and approachable rendering of the creation and flood myths as they appear on various early tablets, though there are relatively few notes and supporting documents to assist readers.
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Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares ๐ฆ๐ ๐ฑ๐ง๐งฏ ๐จ๐ฆ @[email protected] ยทAlso interesting in this account of #Atrahasis, if combined with derek de solla price's account of babylonian culture and society : its' almost as if there's a relative but very conscious r-breeder/k-socially-responsible split after The Flood - the autistic babylonians taking one stance, the jews taking the other -
Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares ๐ฆ๐ ๐ฑ๐ง๐งฏ ๐จ๐ฆ @[email protected] ยท> [Enki] proposal's is accepted by the gods the creation
by proposing and then carried out with his help by the mother-goddess. But even this solution proves not altogether satisfactory. Before 1200 years have elapsed,man is acting in such a way that Enlil is deprived of his sleep. He tries to solve the problem by sending a series of (three) plagues, but
each is rendered ineffective by Enki,who as the personal god of Atrahasis advises his servant how man can avert the plagues or at least survive them(8).
imagine, a time when people who help their nation get through and defeat a plague were revered as gods.
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