Eridu Genesis | The Sumerian Epic of Creation
Published 2021-08-10
The tale is also – most famously – told as the story of Noah and his ark from the biblical Book of Genesis (earliest possible date c. 1450 BCE, latest, c. 800-600 BCE). The story is dated to c. 2300 BCE in its written form but is thought to be much older, preserved by oral tradition until committed to writing.
The extant work is badly damaged, with a number of significant lines missing, but can still be read and easily understood as an early Great Flood story. Scholars who have studied the text generally rely on the later Akkadian/Babylonian Atrahasis – which tells the same tale – to fill in the blanks of missing text from the broken tablet. The story most likely influenced the Egyptian “flood story” known as The Book of the Heavenly Cow (dated, in part, to the First Intermediate Period of Egypt, 2181-2040 BCE) but certainly was the inspiration for the later Mesopotamian works as well as the biblical narrative of Noah.
The story was first discovered in 1893, during the period of widespread expeditions and excavations throughout Mesopotamia funded by western institutions. The good man in this version of the tale, chosen to survive the flood and preserve life on earth, is the Priest-King Ziudsura of the city of Suruppak (whose name means “life of long days”). This same figure appears as Atrahasis (“exceedingly wise”) in the later work that bears his name, as Utnapishtim (“he found life”) in The Epic of Gilgamesh, and as Noah (“rest” or “peace”) in the Book of Genesis.
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Back when the last Ice Age was ending around 12,000 - 11,000 the sea levels were 400+ ft lower and most people lived next to the water where it was warmest, out in the middle of what we now see as oceans and seas. When huge glaciers and ice sheets fell into the oceans, sea levels rose fast with many tsunamis killing huge populations of people along the coast and major flooding as far as these people knew. To them, it was the whole world. This happened all around the world as ancient stories show.
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Two of my favorites coming together to make an awesome video on my favorite ancient culture??? YES PLEASE
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This video proves that you do not need spaceships, aliens or laser beams to make this topic interesting and mysterious. Well done. 2 thumbs up
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I think I better hurry down to my local temple of Enki and offer a sacrifice for this great episode, before the next apocalyptic catastrophe!!!!
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Great job! It raises a lot of questions, especially if you're open and honest. Some people would rather live with the myths instead of facing with courage the truth as it is revealed.
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Well made documentary. Very informative and yet the content was unpacked in an articulate manner as to the benefit of the viewers understanding.
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Simply brilliant.. many thanks for the efforts.
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Really miss the channel and Nick. SAMA produced so many interesting and informative videos. Thanks for everything
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Fantastic work - you have a talent for telling these stories honestly and respectfully - please do more. The beginning of the myth suggests that it is not so much a world-creation myth, but a civilization-creation myth, and one civilization in particular, probably written during its later rise to dominance, as a way to bolster its claims of greatness.
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Always interesting when one of your vids drop
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Seems very interesting how most crucial parts of key tablets are mysteriously "damaged beyond legibility" as if purposely removed. Update: after viewing it looks as if rubbed out via flat stone or broken off. Even if broken the fragments would be present. This intrigues me
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This is the third time I watch this informative video. And I have done some other reading. It clear my suspicion of the creation and flood stories mentioned in the bible are not origin, but a handed down Sumeran traditional tales. Thank you.
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This documentary is gold!!!
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fascinating story and video about the flood story and prehistorical accounts of plagues and ancient cities
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I had always been told the Genesis story was the beginning of mankind. But now I disbelieve the Bible.
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It's unfortunate that the general public is too stupid to appreciate the implications of good scholarship.
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This is awesome information. Thank you.
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I love this channel ❤
