Atra-Hasis

That's important because this isn't the only version of the flood that remembers them.

An older Mesopotamian flood story, the Atrahasis epic, names them too.

Once again, the destruction has been ordered.

Once again, the waters are coming.

I won't ramble on here, but in the Genesis story, God destroys the earth with water because of the wickedness of humans, right? People are wicked.

Okay, well, yes, in the story of Gilgamesh, in the earlier stories, in the Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Babylonian versions... that were written before in the epic of Atrahasis, or Atrahasis, and in the story of Gilgamesh, the epic of Gilgamesh.

In both of these stories, it's the same story, but you have different characters.

God or the gods destroy the earth because there's like an overpopulation.

But I said the story of Noah's Ark comes from Genesis.

Genesis was written about the 5th century B.C., roughly around the time of the Jewish Babylonian exile.

The Babylonians, right in the heart of Mesopotamia, possess the Epic of Atrahasis, and that dates to around 17th century B.C., and the Epic of Gilgamesh, compiled around the 13th to 10th centuries B.C.

Arguments that Genesis...

You won't find those words in the Sumerian King List.

You won't find them in the Eridu Genesis, in the Atrahasis flood story, or in any cuneiform tablet pulled from the sands of southern Iraq.

This phrase, as it's used today, doesn't come from Nippur or Uruk.

It comes from us, from modern researchers, YouTube channels, forum threads, and alternative history writers trying to make sense of a pattern that genuinely does exist in the ancient texts, but that the Sumerians themselves never numbered the way we're numbering it now.

That name matters too.

In later flood traditions, the survivor of the Great Deluge is often linked to Shuruppak and to a man named Ziusudra.

In Akkadian versions, similar figures appear under names like Atrahasis and Utnapishtim.

The names and details change across centuries, but the pattern remains.

The Sumerian myth of Zeusudra.

The Akkadian story of Atrahasis.

Hindu texts describing the Matsya avatar saving Manu from a great deluge.

even cultures far from the mediterranean have flood stories the aboriginal australians have traditions of the sea rising and drowning coastal lands which makes sense because the same post-ice age sea-level rise that flooded the black sea also flooded vast areas of the australian continental shelf But the Mediterranean and Near Eastern stories are different.

In several myths, he is the god who understands the consequences of divine decisions and finds a way through them.

In the Atrahasis story, when the gods decide to send a flood against humanity, Enki does not openly defy the divine assembly.

Instead, he speaks indirectly through a wall warning the human hero Atrahasis to build a boat.

It is a strange scene.

A god who cannot or will not simply announce the secret.

And I also show on here things like technical know-how and seeds to bring and laws and rules and engineering understanding, and you have to take the entire seed of your civilization, everything that you built, and you'd have to preserve it.

And isn't it interesting that when we look at what the tablets state, the Atrahasis, the Epic of Gilgamesh, they state that very same thing? That it wasn't just a family That came from some place and landed and brought some animals.

It was literally the entire core of an old world that came with Ziusudra to rebuild something new.

And that is perhaps the most important hinge I wanna emphasize here before we start, because when I get into Lake Van and I get into this region, you're gonna see the telltale evidence of that continuation and that legacy.