The flood account of Berossus (1)

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Kronos = Enki, Xisouthros = Ziusudra, Daisios = Iyyar (April).

Berossus, Babyloniaca F4b:
Kronos appeared to Xisouthros in a dream and revealed that on the fifteenth day of the month Daisios mankind would be destroyed by a flood. Therefore, he ordered Xisouthros to bury the beginnings and the middles and the ends of all writings in Sippar, the City of the Sun. Then, he should build a boat and embark on it with his kin and his closest friends. Food and drink should be placed in it. He was to load into it also the winged and four-footed creatures and to make everything ready to sail. If asked where he was sailing, he should reply, “To the gods to pray for good things to men.” Heeding him, he built a boat five stades in length and two stades in breadth. He collected everything he had been ordered, and he embarked his wife and his children and his closest friends.

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Berossus, Babyloniaca F4b

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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