--- >From "Hurrian Hebrews; Ea as Yahweh" by Forrest Reinhold , 2004, p. 72:
Reinhold, referring to Ea (Enki, one of the Sumerian "gods") says this regarding what amounts to as a wholesale repetition of the Noah's Ark story by the Genesis writer; who apparently had access to the Epic of Gilgamesh.: "He [Ea - Enki] was the god of the flood as is Yahweh. Cf. the Gilgamesh epic: "Ea ...tear down (this) house, build a ship! Give up possessions, seek thou life, forswear (worldly) goods and keep the soul alive!. aboard the ship thake thou the seed of all living things. The ship that thou shalt build, her dimensions hall be to beasure. Equal will be her width and her length. One (whole) acre was her floorspace, ten dozen cubits the height of each of her walls, ten dozen cubits each edge of the squre deck...I provided her with six decks, dividing her thus into seven parts...Six measures of bitumen I poured into the furnace, Bullocks I slaughtered for the people and I killed sheep every day. Whatever I had of all the living things I laded upon her. All my family and kin I made go aboard the ship, also the beasts of the field, the wild creatures of the field. A black cloud rose up from the horizon, the sotuh storm blew, gathering speed as it blew, submerging the mountains, overtaking the people like a battle. The olden days are alas turned to clay,. thundering...the destruction of my people. The sea grew quit, the tempest was still, the flood ceased. I opened a hatch and light fell on my face. In each of the 14 regions there emerged a mountain. On Mt. Niser the ship came to a halt. When the seventh day arrived, I sent forth and set free a dove. The dove went forth but came back; since no resting place for it was visible, she turned around. Then I sent forth and set free a raven. The raven went forth and, seeing that the waters had diminished, he eats, circles, caws, and turns not around. I poured out a libation on the top of the mountain, seven and seven cult- vessens I set up, upon their pot-stands I heaped cane, cedarwood, and myrtle. The gods smelled the savor, the gods smelled the sweet savor". --- End forwarded message --- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
