#atrahasis
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Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares
@jeffcliff@shitposter.clubAlso interesting in this account of #Atrahasis, if combined with derek de solla price's account of babylonian culture and society : its' almost as if there's a relative but very conscious r-breeder/k-socially-responsible split after the flood - the autistic babylonians taking one stance, the jews taking the other
Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares
@jeffcliff@shitposter.club> [Enki] proposal's is accepted by the gods the creation
by proposing and then carried out with his help by the mother-goddess. But even this solution proves not altogether satisfactory. Before 1200 years have elapsed,man is acting in such a way that Enlil is deprived of his sleep. He tries to solve the problem by sending a series of (three) plagues, but
each is rendered ineffective by Enki,who as the personal god of Atrahasis advises his servant how man can avert the plagues or at least survive them(8).
imagine, a time when people who help their nation get through and defeat a plague were revered as gods.
#Atrahasis
by proposing and then carried out with his help by the mother-goddess. But even this solution proves not altogether satisfactory. Before 1200 years have elapsed,man is acting in such a way that Enlil is deprived of his sleep. He tries to solve the problem by sending a series of (three) plagues, but
each is rendered ineffective by Enki,who as the personal god of Atrahasis advises his servant how man can avert the plagues or at least survive them(8).
imagine, a time when people who help their nation get through and defeat a plague were revered as gods.
#Atrahasis