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Ziusudra (Old Babylonian: 𒍣𒌓𒋤𒁺 Ṣíusudrá [ṣi₂-u₄-sud-ra₂], Neo-****yrian: 𒍣𒋤𒁕 Ṣísudda, Gr****: Ξίσουθρος, translit. Xísouthros) of
Shuruppak (c. 2900 BC)...
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Ziusudra (likely a priest), of this
decision and
advises him to
build a boat to save both
himself and one
couple of
every living creature.
Ziusudra builds...
- 1600 BCE, the hero is King
Ziusudra. This story, the
Sumerian flood myth,
probably derives from an
earlier version. The
Ziusudra version tells how he builds...
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world habitable for humans. In the
Sumerian flood myth,
Enlil rewards Ziusudra with
immortality for
having survived the
flood and, in the
Babylonian flood...
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making a boat. He is
called by
different names in
different traditions:
Ziusudra ("Life of long days",
rendered Xisuthros, Ξίσουθρος in Berossus) in the...
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admonitory sayings of Šuruppak
addressed to his son and
eventual flood hero
Ziusudra (Akkadian: Utnapishtin).
Otherwise named as one of the five antediluvian...
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flood account,
written in the
Sumerian language,
calls the
deluge hero
Ziusudra." However, Yi
Samuel Chen
writes that the
oldest versions of the Epic of...
- the 17th
century BC (i.e. the Old
Babylonian Empire), the hero is
named Ziusudra, who also
appears in the
Instructions of
Shuruppak as the son of the eponymous...
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dynasty (En-sipad-zid-ana)
Sippar dynasty (Enmeduranki)
Shuruppak dynasty (
Ziusudra) Kish I
dynasty (Enmebaragesi)
Early Dynastic II period: c. 2800 – c. 2600...
- and the
place where the
deified Sumerian hero of the flood,
Utnapishtim (
Ziusudra), was
taken by the gods to live forever.
Thorkild Jacobsen's translation...
