The Atrahasis-The Tale of the Super Sage PT 1

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The 18th century BCE Akkadian Atra-Hasis epic, named after its human hero, contains both a creation myth and a flood account, and is one of three surviving Babylonian flood stories. The oldest known copy of the epic of Atrahasis can be dated by colophon (scribal identification) to the reign of Hammurabi's great-grandson, Ammi-Saduqa (1646--1626 BCE), but various Old Babylonian fragments exist; it continued to be copied into the first millennium. The Atrahasis story also exists in a later fragmentary Assyrian version, the first one having been rediscovered in the library of Ashurbanipal, but because of the fragmentary condition of the tablets and ambiguous words, translations had been uncertain.

W. G. Lambert and A. R. Millard, Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, London (1965) published many additional texts belonging to the epic, including an Old Babylonian copy (written around 1650 BCE) which is our most complete surviving recension of the tale. These new texts greatly increased knowledge of the epic and they served as the foundation for the first English translation of the Atrahasis epic in something approaching entirety, by Lambert and Millard (Atrahasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood, Oxford, 1969). A further fragment has been recovered in Ugarit.

The surviving Atrahasis epic is written on three tablets in Akkadian, the language of ancient Babylon.

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  • Watch how monkeys ...

    Watch how monkeys behave socially, i think the "evil" you speak of is primal savagery. We can see this in our "10 Commandments" Stealing food from another is a primal trait, scavenging. Coveting your neighbors wife is nothing more than Alpha male dominance.

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  • And we wonder where ...

    And we wonder where war and evil comes from.

    If we (Humans) are half this god races DNA well..there's your answer for who is evil...The Gods that our DNA shares this form with. Read all the war and read the reasons for war.. Emotional, insecure, beings these gods are.

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    Are you sure you couldn't have fixed the caps?

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  • you're not an ...

    you're not an oracle at all, you're a fool who does too much homework and dwells on misconceptions of the truth.

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  • Quite some time, I ...

    Quite some time, I been sittin it out
    Didnt take no chances
    I was a prisner of doubt.
    I knocked down the wailin wall
    Aint no sin
    Got the feel of fortune; deal me in

    Comin straight on for you. you made my mind.
    Now Im stronger. now Im comin through
    Straight on, straight on for you
    Straight on for you.
    Now I know I got to play my hand
    What the winner dont know, a gambler understands
    My heart keeps playin it through
    Straight on...for you.
    (Heart)

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  • Straight on!

    Straight on!

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  • i just finished the ...

    i just finished the video...first time i ever heard this story. i wonder first, who made the gods? where are they from? why do they have the duty of whatever duty they fell compelled with? and how do these duties coincide with the duties of the other gods? who created those gods with the ability to know of each other?

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  • Thanks!

    Thanks!

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