The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh: The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith — John Shaqi
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh: The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and SmithBudge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
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The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh: The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith
A break in the text makes it impossible to give the opening lines
of Uta-Napishtim's reply, but he mentions the father and mother of
Gilgamish, and in the last twenty lines of the Tenth Tablet he warns
Gilgamish that on earth there is nothing permanent, that Mammitum,
the arranger of destinies, has settled the question of the death and
life of man with the Anunnaki, and that none may find out the day of
his death or escape from death.
The Eleventh Tablet.
The story of the Deluge as told by Uta-Napishtim to Gilgamish has
already been given on pp. 31-40, and we therefore pass on to the
remaining contents of this Tablet. When Uta-Napishtim had finished the
story of the Deluge, he said to Gilgamish, "Now as touching thyself;
which of the gods will gather thee to himself so that thou mayest
find the life which thou seekest? Come now, do not lay thyself down to
sleep for six days and seven nights." But in spite of this admonition
as soon as Gilgamish had sat down, drowsiness overpowered him and
he fell fast asleep. Uta-Napishtim, seeing that even the mighty hero
Gilgamish could not resist falling asleep, with some amusement drew
the attention of his wife to the fact, but she felt sorry for the
tired man, and suggested that he should take steps to help him to
return to his home. In reply Uta-Napishtim told her to bake bread for
him and she did so, and each day for six days she carried a loaf to
the ship and laid it on the deck where Gilgamish lay sleeping. On the
seventh day when she took the loaf Uta-Napishtim touched Gilgamish,
and the hero woke up with a start, and admitted that he had been
overcome with sleep, and made incapable of movement thereby.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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