RELS 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Atra-Hasis, Enlil, Urshanabi
23 Feb 2016
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Cosmo thought lived on flat earth, not round globe. Surrounded by an ocean and something called the plate that stretches above the sky (firmament) with sun, moon an stars, waters above and below the. Firmament, above this is the heavens of the heavens. Mountains which hold the earth around like a bowl. Where are scorpion men according to gilgamesh ix: mashu at end of world, where mountains are. Place out of which the sun comes up and which it returns. Depicted as going through a tunnel in which the sun comes up of. Uta-napishtim is sometimes depicted as lived on island of dilmun, one of the islands that out of oceans, place of paradise. He gets angry, attacks ur-shanabi"s helpers, but ur-shanabi say he ruined his chances, so he has to cut poles to punt the raft across. Reaches island of dilmun, finds uta-napishtim tells gilgamesh of how he became immortal (the flood story)
