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Atrahasis III: Enki instructs Atrahasis to build an ark. He loads animals on it. The gods weep because they are famished. Mami especially is upset, as she created man. Atrahasis makes a sacrifice to the gods and they feast. Ellil confronts Enki about the survivors. Enki admits that he saved them. The gods hold council and decide that men should be mortal and create stillborn children and chaste priestesses as well

Atrahasis II: Ellil orders Adad to stop the rain and bring a famine upon mankind. Atrahasis tells the people to make offerings to Adad to bring back the rain and he does so. Ellil is enraged and reminds Ea that he created man and his job was to control the population by controlling the waters from Apsu. Ellil gets other gods to use their powers to create a flood to wipe out mankind

Atrahasis I: the Igigi build canals but are tired of their work. They protest outside Ellil’s home. He, Anu, and Enki petition the Anunnaki to let Mami create man. The Anunnaki sacrifice a god and his blood is mixed with clay to create man. Ellil complains of man’s noise. He sends disease to wipe them out. Enki tells Atrahasis to make offerings to Namtara, god in the netherworld, to end the plague

Noah may have come from an abbreviation of Uta-na’ishtim. Ulysses and Odysseus may also have come from this name. Man is created from clay in the Atrahasis, just like in Genesis. Deucalion is a Greek figure who survived the flood. He may have come from the Babylonian tale or from Jewish immigrants bringing their flood story. The story may have come from marine fossils found by ancients