Скачать или смотреть Atrahasis - Tablets, 1, 2, 3 - The story of the great flood

Most probably written down somewhere between the mid-17th or 18th-century BCE, this Akkadian/Babylonian epic relays the story of the Great Flood sent by the gods to destroy human life.
Written in many versions on clay tablets, it was named for the primary protagonist, the "exceedingly wise" priest , Atra-Hasis.

The epic poem focuses on the good man, Atrahasis, who is warned of the impending world wide flood by the god Enki/ Ea, who instructs him to build an ark in order to save himself and his loved ones, as well as many kinds of animals.
Atrahasis heeds the words of his god, and thus, preserves life on earth.

The narrative relays a story which describes how the elder gods made the younger gods do all the work constructing the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The work was so harsh and tedious, that after several thousand years, the young gods finally protest.
In order to prevent a rebellion,Enki, god of wisdom, suggests the creation of something new in order to continue the necessary work.
Human beings were thus manifested, made by combining clay with the body of a sacrificed God.
This god, We-Ilu/ Ilawela/Geshtu/Geshtu-e is known as "a god who has sense/intelligence."

The mother goddess Nintu/mami combines the flesh of the sacrificial god together with his blood,intelligence and clay in order to create seven male and seven female human beings.

The name "Atra-Hasis" appears on a Sumerian Kings list, as a king of Shuruppak on the Euphrates in the times before that flood.

A similar Sumerian story exists, and is known as the `Eridu Genesis', which is most likely older and probably written somewhere around c. 2300 BCE.
The even older version of tablet XI of The Epic of Gilgamesh, similarly relates the tale of the Great Flood

The oldest known copy of the epic tradition concerning Atrahasis can be dated by colophon to the reign of Hammurabi’s great-grandson, Ammi-Saduqa (1646–1626 BC).
However, various Old Babylonian dialect fragments exist, and the epic continued to be copied into the first millennium BC.

The story of Atrahasis also exists in a later Assyrian dialect version, first rediscovered in the Library of Ashurbanipal.

These fragments were assembled and translated by George Smith as The Chaldean Account of Genesis, the hero of which had his name corrected to Atra-Hasis by Heinrich Zimmern in 1899.

The Epic of Gilgamesh retells the story, with more or less the same details, but the hero is Utnapishtim ("He Found Life") who is spirited away by the gods with his wife and lives forever in the land across the seas. Gilgamesh's quest for immortality leads him eventually to Utnapishtim but his journey does him no good as everlasting life is denied to mortals.

The Sumerian version of the tale has Ziusudra ("The Far Distant") as the hero but tells the same story.

The best known tale of the Great Flood, of course, is from the biblical Book of Genesis 6-9 in which God becomes frustrated by the corruption of humanity and destroys them with a flood, all except for the righteous Noah and his family.



Attributions:

*Artwork:AI

*Music: AI

*Read by: EarthenOpus

*Text derived from: "Myths from Mesopotamia", creation, the flood, Gilgamesh and others
A new translation by Stephanie Dalley

Please note, that, as these tablets are full of lacunae/broken and missing sections, I've taken the liberty to fill in the blanks in order to assure the flow and continuity of the story.