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The Flood

Selected quotations from the various flood narratives that Zecharia Sitchin compared.

The Atra-Hasis Account

"Reed wall, reed wall! Listen! Pay attention, O Atra-Hasis! Tear down your house, build a boat. Abandon your possessions, save your life!" β€” Enki's warning

"The flood roared like a great bull. The winds howled, the rains poured. For seven days and seven nights, the storm raged over the land."

"Nintu, the mother goddess, wept. 'My creatures, my children β€” they are destroyed like flies in the river.'"

The Gilgamesh Account

"Then Utnapishtim said: 'The gods decided to destroy mankind. But Ea, who dwells in the deep, warned me in a dream. Build a ship, he said, and save your life.'"

"I loaded the ship with all that I had of living creatures. The boatman Puzur-Amurri sealed the door. And the storm came, the great storm."

"Six days and seven nights the wind blew. On the seventh day, the storm ceased. I looked out and saw β€” all of humanity had turned to clay."

The Biblical Account

"And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth... But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord." (Genesis 6:7-8)

"And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." (Genesis 7:12)

"And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat." (Genesis 8:4)

See Also

Sources

  • Sitchin, Z. (1976). The 12th Planet.
  • Lambert, W. G. & Millard, A. R. (1969). Atra-αΈͺasΔ«s.
  • George, A. R. (2003). The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic.