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Ziusudra is one of several mythic characters who are protagonists of Near Eastern flood myths, including Atrahasis, Utnapishtim and the biblical Noah. Although each story displays its own distinctive features, many key story elements are common to two, three, or all four versions. [citation needed]
Utnapishtim. Uta-napishtim or Utnapishtim (Akkadian: 𒌓𒍣, "he has found life") was a legendary king of the ancient city of Shuruppak in southern Iraq, who, according to the Gilgamesh flood myth, one of several similar narratives, survived the Flood by making and occupying a boat. He is called by different names in different traditions ...
t. e. Atra-Hasis (Akkadian: 𒀜𒊏𒄩𒋀, romanized: Atra-ḫasīs) is an 18th-century BC Akkadian epic, recorded in various versions on clay tablets, [1] named for its protagonist, Atrahasis ('exceedingly wise'). [2] The Atra-Hasis tablets include both a cosmological creation myth and one of three surviving Babylonian flood myths.
The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is one of three Mesopotamian Flood Myths alongside the one including in the Eridu Genesis, and an episode from the Atra-Hasis Epic. Many scholars believe that the flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who used the flood ...
Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, [1] [2] offers a description of the story surrounding how humanity was created by the gods, how the office of kingship entered human civilization, the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global flood.
The ancient Greeks and Romans had two similar myths from a later date: the Deucalion story and Zeus' world flood in Book I of Ovid's Metamorphoses. The Germanic and Norse story of Ymir also has parallels to the flood myth. Ziusudra and Xisuthros. Zi-ud-sura is known to us from the following sources: From the Sumerian Flood myth discussed above.
Noah's Ark (Hebrew: תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) [Notes 1] is the boat in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all the world's animals from a global deluge. [1] The story in Genesis is based on earlier flood myths originating in Mesopotamia, and is repeated, with variations, in ...
The Instructions of Shuruppak (or, Instructions of Šuruppak[1] son of Ubara-tutu) are a significant example of Sumerian wisdom literature. [2] Wisdom literature, intended to teach proper piety, inculcate virtue, and preserve community standards, was common throughout the ancient Near East. [3] Its incipit sets the text in great antiquity: "In ...