This is the oldest description of the Great Flood
– And it predates
the Bible
From Ancient-code
While many people doubt the Great Flood ever existed, the
truth is that this ‘story’ goes back thousands of years.Many people are
familiar with the Genesis Flood Narrative which is written down in chapters 6–9
in the Book of Genesis, in the Bible. However, the truth is that the great
flood is mentioned earlier in totally different texts.
The legend of the flood –better said the narrative— recounts
the God’s intent to bring Earth back to its pre-creation state. The flood was
sent upon Earth as means to ‘reset’ it.
God sends the flood because of humanity’s misdeeds and then remake’s it
using the microcosm of Noah’s ark.
The flood is considered a reversal of creation.
To get the entire picture, the ‘Great Flood’ is present in
nearly all cultures around the globe: Mesopotamian flood stories, Deucalion in
Greek mythology, the Genesis flood narrative, the Hindu texts from India,
Bergelmir in Norse Mythology, and in the lore of the K’iche’ and Maya peoples
in Mesoamerica, the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa tribe of Native Americans in
North America, the Muisca, and Cañari Confederation, in South America.
But what people are unaware of is the fact that the oldest
and most ancient story of the Great Deluge originated in ancient Sumeria.
According to ancient inscriptions, it was ‘Eridu,’ –modern
day Abu Shahrein, Iraq– where the gods created the first city on the planet.
Eridu was home to the ancient Sumerian God Enki, who erected the city in 5400
BC.
The ancient Sumerian Nippur tablet describes the oldest
account of the Great Flood and the creation of both humans and animals on our
planet and records the names of Antediluvian cities on earth and their
respective rulers.
The Eridu Genesis is believed to have been composed circa
2,300 BCE is considered as the earliest known account of the great flood and
predates more popular Great Flood described in the biblical book of Genesis.
Referred to by mainstream scholars as the Nippur Tablet, the
ancient clay tablet recovered from the ancient city of Nippur is the only
existing ancient document of the Sumerian Flood Story. It contains six columns
of written text, three per side with approximately 10 to 15 lines in each
column and is written in ancient Sumerian.
This ancient clay tablet from ancient Nippur is the only
surviving document of the Sumerian flood story.
The accounts of the Great Flood on the Nippur tablet read:
“…By the wall I will
say a word to you, Take my word, Give ear to my instructions: By our…a flood
will sweep over the cult- enters; To destroy the seed of mankind…, Is the
decision, the word of the assembly of the gods. By the word commanded by Anu
and Enlil…, Its kingship, its rule will be put to an end…”
It continues: “…All the windstorms, exceedingly powerful,
Attacked as one, At the same time, the flood sweeps over the cult-centers.
After, for seven days, the flood sweeps over the cult centers. After, for seven
days and seven nights, The flood had swept over the land, And the huge boat had
been tossed About by the windstorms on the great waters, Utu came forth, who
sheds light on heaven and earth, Ziusudra opened a window of the huge boat, The
hero Utu brought his rays into the giant boat…”
It concludes: “…At the same time, the flood sweeps over the
cult-centers. After, for seven days, the flood sweeps over the cult centers.
After, for seven days and seven nights, The flood had swept over the land, And the
huge boat had been tossed About by the windstorms on the great waters…”
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"Tear down
the house, build a ship!
Give up
possessions, seek thou life!
Forswear
belongings, keep soul alive!
Aboard ship take
thou the seed of all living things.
That ship thou
shalt build;
Her dimensions
shall be to measure."
- Sumerian Text
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