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The origin of mortality (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Atrahasis (flood) 04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry 04.01 Myths 04.01.02 Atrahasis (flood) Shortened life time 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.02 Human history 01.02.05 Postdiluvian age 01.02.05.01 Shortened life time	Keywords death
Period Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian Empires	Channel Akkadian poetry

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Atrahasis Epic (OBV) 1.6.41-48:
[Enlil] made ready to speak, and said to Ea the leader: “[Come], summon Nintu the birth goddess, [do you] and she take counsel together in the assembly.” [Ea] made ready to speak, and [said to] Nintu the birth goddess: “[You], birth goddess, creatress of destinies, [establish death] for all peoples!”

Source (list of abbreviations)
Atrahasis Epic (OBV) 1.6.41-48

Bibliography

Foster 1993, 183

Foster, Benjamin. Before the Muses. Ann Arbor: CDL Press 1993.

Amar Annus

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