Ziusudra (Old Babylonian: 𒍣𒌓𒋤𒁺Ṣíusudrá [ṣi₂-u₄-sud-ra₂], Neo-Assyrian: 𒍣𒋤𒁕Ṣísudda,[1] Greek: Ξίσουθρος, translit. Xísouthros) of Shuruppak (c. 2900 BC) is listed in the WB-62 Sumerian King List recension as the last king of Sumer prior to the Great Flood. He is subsequently recorded as the hero of the Eridu Genesis and appears in the writings of Berossus as Xisuthros.[citation needed]
Ziusudra is one of several mythic characters who are protagonists of Near Eastern flood myths, including Atrahasis, Utnapishtim and the biblical Noah. Although each story displays its own distinctive features, many key story elements are common to two, three, or all four versions.[citation needed]
Ziusudra (likely a priest), of this decision and advises him to build a boat to save both himself and one couple of every living creature. Ziusudra builds...
world habitable for humans. In the Sumerian flood myth, Enlil rewards Ziusudra with immortality for having survived the flood and, in the Babylonian flood...
making a boat. He is called by different names in different traditions: Ziusudra ("Life of long days", rendered Xisuthros, Ξίσουθρος in Berossus) in the...
flood account, written in the Sumerian language, calls the deluge hero Ziusudra." However, Yi Samuel Chen writes that the oldest versions of the Epic of...
admonitory sayings of Šuruppak addressed to his son and eventual flood hero Ziusudra (Akkadian: Utnapishtin). Otherwise named as one of the five antediluvian...
and the place where the deified Sumerian hero of the flood, Utnapishtim (Ziusudra), was taken by the gods to live forever. Thorkild Jacobsen's translation...
listings are in chronological order, though some dates are approximate. Ziusudra, the last king of Sumer prior to the Great Flood. His story is known from...
Kramer has stated that it can probably be reasonably inferred that the hero Ziusudra survives due to Enki's aid because that is what happens in the later Akkadian...
dynasty (En-sipad-zid-ana) Sippar dynasty (Enmeduranki) Shuruppak dynasty (Ziusudra) Kish I dynasty (Enmebaragesi) Early Dynastic II period: c. 2800 – c. 2600...
Silver Cord, with references to the epic in the song's lyrics. Atra-Hasis Ziusudra Enūma Eliš Gilgamesh: A New English Version Ancient literature The name...
up in the Old Babylonian Period. Chen also concludes that the name of "Ziusudra" as a flood hero and the idea of the flood hinted at by that name in the...
millennium BCE. Extant texts show three distinct versions, the Sumerian Epic of Ziusudra, (the oldest, found in very fragmentary form on a single tablet dating...
existed in Mesopotamia. These stories then diverged in the retelling." Ziusudra, Utnapishtim and Noah are the respective heroes of the Sumerian, Akkadian...
& Wagnalls. pp. 95f. Best, Robert MacAndrew (1999). Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic: Sumerian Origins of the Flood Myth. Enlil Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-9667840-1-5...
Alulim is listed among famous ancient figures alongside Etana, Gilgamesh, Ziusudra, Humbaba, Enkidu, Bazi and Zizi. The fact that kings associated both with...
Mesopotamia. It presents advice from a father (Shuruppak) to his son (Ziusudra) on various aspects of life, from personal conduct to social relations...
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