Utnapishtim And The Babylonian Flood Story

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient story of the great Flood has been retold worldwide. We find accounts of the event in many ancient cultures around the world. They all have myths and legends describing a time in the distant past when a horrifying Deluge wiped almost all life on Earth.

The story of Noah’s Ark is not just a Biblical story. Noah was known by a different name in India, among ancient Egyptians, and among Native Americans, to name a few cultures.

George Smith translated the Babylonian Flood Tablet in the mid- to late 19th century. The British Museum

The life of Utnapishtim and the Babylonian Flood Story are described in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Just like Noah, Utnapishtim is the survivor of the Deluge.  Gilgamesh is the semi-mythic King of Uruk, best known from The Epic of Gilgamesh (written c. 2150-1400 BCE), the great Sumerian/Babylonian poetic work.

Memories of an antediluvian (pre-flood) period were preserved throughout Mesopotamia: The Sumerian King List includes antediluvian kings, and reliefs of antediluvian sages known as apkallu, winged and bird-headed creatures, lined the walls of Assyrian palaces and remain among the most iconic forms of Mesopotamian art to this day.

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