SUMERIAN FLOOD STORY
The gods had decided to destroy mankind.
The god Enlil warned the priest-king Ziusudra ("Long of Life") of the coming flood by speaking to a wall while Ziusudra listened at the side.
He was instructed to build a great ship and carry beasts and birds upon it.
Violent winds came, and a flood of rain covered the earth for seven days and nights.
Then Ziusudra opened a window in the large boat, allowing sunlight to enter, and he prostrated himself before the sun-god Utu.
After landing, he sacrificed a sheep and an ox and bowed before Anu and Enlil.
For protecting the animals and the seed of mankind, he was granted eternal life and taken to the country of Dilmun, where the sun rises. [Hammerly-Dupuy, p. 56; Heidel, pp. 102-106]
Hammerly-Dupuy, Daniel, 1968. "Some Observations on the Assyro-Babylonian and Sumerian Flood Stories", in Dundes.
Dundes, Alan (ed.) The Flood Myth, University of California Press, Berkeley and London, 1988.
The flood (Genesis 6-9) -- The two flood stories in Genesis / Norman C. Habel -- The Chaldean account of the deluge / George Smith -- Some observations on the Assyro-Babylonian and Sumerian flood stories / Daniel Hämmerly-Dupuy -- The Atrahasis epic and its significance for our understanding of Genesis 1-9 / Tikva Frymer-Kensky -- The story of the flood in the light of comparative Semitic mythology / Eleanor Follansbee -- Stories of the creation and the flood / Leonard Woolley -- New light on Ovid's story of Philemon and Baucis / W.M. Calder -- The great flood / James George Frazer -- The principle of retribution in the flood and catastrophe myths / Hans Kelsen -- The flood myth as vesical dream / Géza Róheim -- The flood as male myth of creation / Alan Dundes -- An analysis of the deluge myth in Mesoamerica / Fernando Horcasitas -- Historical changes as reflected in South American Indian myths / Annamária Lammel -- Noah's ark revisited : on the myth-land connection in traditional Australian aboriginal thought / Erich Kolig -- Myth motifs in flood stories from the grassland of Cameroon / Emmi Kähler-Meyer -- The flood motif and the symbolism of rebirth in Filipino mythology / Francisco Demetrio -- The flood : three northern Kammu versions of the story of creation / Kristina Lindell, Jan-Ojvind Swahn, and Damrong Tayanin -- The deluge myth of the Bhils of central India / Wilhelm Koppers -- The Tamil flood myths and the Cankam legend / David Shulman -- Noah and the flood in Jewish legend / Louis Ginzberg -- The devil in the ark (AaTh825) / Francis Lee Utley -- Science and the universality of the flood / Don Cameron Allen -- Geology and orthodoxy : the case of Noah's flood in eighteenth-century thought / Rhoda Rappaport -- Charles Lyell and the Noachian deluge / James R. Moore -- Creationism : Genesis vs. geology / Stephen Jay Gould
The Flood Myth - Anna’s Archive
Heidel, Alexander. The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels, University of Chicago Press, 1949.
"A companion to ... [the author's] monograph The Babylonian Genesis."
Bibliographical footnotes
The Gilgamesh epic.
Related material.
Death and the afterlife.
The story of the flood
Library's 2nd copy from the library of Robert D. Onsted, Collector and Author
The Gilgamesh epic and Old Testament parallels - Anna’s Archive
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