Annexure – Atrahasis I: Creation of Humans

This story outlines the structure of the universe based on Babylonian beliefs. Heaven is dominated by sweet water in the basement of Anu God, Enri 's Earth, Enki. Then the text explains how the small god worked outdoors and then rebelled. As a result, humans are made of clay, saliva, sacred blood, and work as servants of the gods.

This is not a perfect solution because humans breed and their noise disturbs Enlil's sleep. He decided to destroy them with plague, famine, drought and flood. However, every time Enki tells Atrachassis, one of them, the disaster survives. God gave seven days of flood warning to Athrahasys, he built a ship and loaded his possessions, animals, and birds. Then he was saved and the rest of us were destroyed. But the gods will not be satisfied as they will no longer accept past sacrifices. At the moment there is a gap in the text, which ends with Atrahasis offering and Enlil accepting the existence and usefulness of human beings.

A copy of this story has survived from the 17th century BC to the 7th century BC and has been copied and recopied for centuries. This is the most complete version. This flood story is clearly similar to other stories of Mesopotamian literature like Gilgamesh epic.

Note 1: The names of "Mistress of Gods", "Ren" and "Mami" are different.

Atrahasis is an epic of Akkad / Babylon of the Great Flood sent by the gods and is designed to destroy human life. Only Atrachhesis (whose name is translated as "very smart") are good people and warned that Ea God is about to be flooded. Atrashis noticed the word of God. And we put two different animals in the ark and kept the lives of humans and animals on the earth. Atrashis, written in the mid 17th century BC, thought that the story itself was older and inherited, but was written in the reign of Ami Saduka (1646 - 1626 BC), the grandson of King Ham Rabi of Babylonian I have the right. Spread with words

As early as the explanation of floods by Babylon, we started to look at a charitable model that might be explained as human behavior. Perhaps at Atrahasis, God Enki rescued the Atrahasys of the ark, as opposed to Enil who wanted to destroy loud humans to take good night sleep thanks to Enki's affection for humanity. Nevertheless, because the explanation of the flood of Babylon had shown little interest in communicating the motivation, the motive of Enki's behavior was not explicitly explained in this way. For example, it is not morbidly intended to provide infant mortality as a means to control overpopulation. Therefore, we can not point out that the explanation of Babylon's flood is a myth to promote charity. Enki's obvious sympathy for humanity is not drawn in such a way that it serves as a model of human behavior.

In contemporary academic books it is often found that human beings, Atrahasys in the flood of Babylonia, and Enuma Elish's creative myths served the gods and were born to fulfill their humble duties. This is undoubtedly an important observation of human and religious analysis but the expression of human and sacred relationship as one of simple obedience is a mutual understanding between the human world and the sacred field related to human and sacred fields It gives a misleading and representative impression of action. The interaction between them is contradictory. The complexity, diversity and delicacy of the theme