The Sumerian Tablet That Describes the Last Conversation Enki Had With the First Species

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In the Atrahasis Epic, one of the oldest flood stories ever written, the god Enlil decides to wipe out humanity with a flood, and he forces Enki to swear an oath not to interfere or warn anyone. 📜🤐 Enki can't tell a human, so he finds a loophole. He goes to the reed-walled house of Atrahasis and speaks aloud to the wall itself, so the warning isn't technically delivered to the man. 🗣️🧱 The tablets give the words, beginning with the wall being addressed directly: "Wall, wall! Reed wall, reed wall!" The message that follows is blunt: tear down your house, build a boat, give up your possessions, and save life. 🏚️⛵ The instructions are surprisingly specific. The boat must be roofed over "like the Apsu" so the sun can't see inside, sealed with firm pitch, and Enki promises to shower down birds and fish later as provisions. 🐦🐟 A recently published tablet known as the Ark Tablet even describes the vessel as a round, coracle-style boat. 🌀🔍 Then Enki opens the water clock and sets the countdown, a deluge that will last seven days. ⏳🌧️ When Enlil discovers the survivors, he's furious that his oath was broken, but Enki insists he did what he did to make sure life was preserved. ⚖️😠 In this video, we walk through exactly how a god used a wall to get around his own oath, and why the Atrahasis flood warning is still one of the most fascinating moments in ancient literature. 🔍

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