Facts about The Eridu Genesis

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   Unlike later Akkadian flood accounts, the Eridu Genesis attributes the decision to spare humanity partly to the god Enki, who warns Ziusudra of the coming deluge.

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   Scholars date the Eridu Genesis to approximately the late third or early second millennium BCE, making it one of humanity's earliest written cosmological myths.

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   In the Eridu Genesis, the hero Ziusudra is a pious king who survives the flood by building a large boat, making him a precursor to the biblical Noah.

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   Preserved on a damaged clay tablet, the Eridu Genesis was discovered at Nippur and is written in the Sumerian language.

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   Among the oldest flood narratives known, the Eridu Genesis is a Sumerian text describing a great deluge sent by the gods to destroy humanity.

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