CLAA05H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Atra-Hasis, Anunnaki, Igigi
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In mesopotamian literature atrahasis was a wise man who built an ark and saved mankind from destruction. His heart was breaking and he was vomiting bile: atrahasis heard adad the storm god bellow and saw the storm clouds. He becomes furious that atrahasis and his family survived when all of mankind was supposed to perish: ellil accuses enki of saving them and he admits it! In the beginning, time of the gods, nothing existed: a story describing the creation of the world, a hero god creates the universe from the corpse of another god, used to explain how the world was created. Enuma eli cuneiform: akkadian and sumerian are languages written in cuneiform script, sumerian begins being written down around 3000 bc, sumer in southern mesopotamia, akkadian is slightly later ~ 2500 bc, akkad in central mesopotamia, semitic language. In babylon for marduk: other cities other deities (e. g. at ur for the god nanna and at uruk for anu and.
