Ziusudra (Old Babylonian: 𒍣𒌓𒋤𒁺 Ṣíusudrá [ṣi₂-u₄-sud-ra₂], Neo-Assyrian: 𒍣𒋤𒁕 Ṣísudda, Greek: Ξίσουθρος, translit. Xísouthros) of Shuruppak (c. 2900 BC)...

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...

making a boat. He is called by different names in different traditions: Ziusudra ("Life of long days", rendered Xisuthros, Ξίσουθρος in Berossus) in the...

1600 BCE, the hero is King Ziusudra. This story, the Sumerian flood myth, probably derives from an earlier version. The Ziusudra version tells how he builds...

habitable for humans. In the Sumerian flood myth Eridu Genesis, Enlil rewards Ziusudra with immortality for having survived the flood and, in the Babylonian flood...

the 17th century BC (i.e. the Old Babylonian Empire), the hero is named Ziusudra, who also appears in the Instructions of Shuruppak as the son of the eponymous...

admonitory sayings of Šuruppak addressed to his son and eventual flood hero Ziusudra (Akkadian: Utnapishtin). Otherwise named as one of the five antediluvian...

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...

Nüwa, goddess in Chinese mythology best known for creating mankind. Noah Ziusudra, hero of the Sumerian flood epic Atra-Hasis Roshen Dalal (2010). Hinduism:...

dynasty (En-sipad-zid-ana) Sippar dynasty (Enmeduranki) Shuruppak dynasty (Ziusudra) Kish I dynasty (Enmebaragesi) Early Dynastic II period: c. 2800 – c. 2600...

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...

religion Deluge Enûma Eliš Epic of Gilgamesh Noah's Ark Panbabylonism Ziusudra (Tigay 1982) page 25 Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq, pages 123, 502 Dalley...

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...

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...

Iktomi Gukumatz Kukulkan Maya Hero Twins Maya maize god Enkidu Gilgamesh Ziusudra Bochica Changing Woman The Diyin Dine Nayenezgani Arngrim Bödvar Bjarki...

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...

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...

heroes Adapa Enkidu Enmerkar Gilgamesh Lugalbanda Shamhat Siduri Atra-Hasis Ziusudra Apkallu (seven sages) Spirits and monsters Udug Lamassu/Shedu Asag Edimmu...

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...

& 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...

existed in Mesopotamia. These stories then diverged in the retelling." Ziusudra, Utnapishtim and Noah are the respective heroes of the Sumerian, Akkadian...

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...

heroes Adapa Enkidu Enmerkar Gilgamesh Lugalbanda Shamhat Siduri Atra-Hasis Ziusudra Apkallu (seven sages) Spirits and monsters Udug Lamassu/Shedu Asag Edimmu...

Nintinugga, Irkalla, Kur, Namtar, Nergal, Bitu, Nindukugga, Ninlil, Urshanabi, Ziusudra Syrian mythology Reshep Tamil mythology Cur Thracian mythology Heros Turkic...

Alulim is listed among famous ancient figures alongside Etana, Gilgamesh, Ziusudra, Humbaba, Enkidu, Bazi and Zizi. The fact that kings associated both with...

heroes Adapa Enkidu Enmerkar Gilgamesh Lugalbanda Shamhat Siduri Atra-Hasis Ziusudra Apkallu (seven sages) Spirits and monsters Udug Lamassu/Shedu Asag Edimmu...

heroes Adapa Enkidu Enmerkar Gilgamesh Lugalbanda Shamhat Siduri Atra-Hasis Ziusudra Apkallu (seven sages) Spirits and monsters Udug Lamassu/Shedu Asag Edimmu...

heroes Adapa Enkidu Enmerkar Gilgamesh Lugalbanda Shamhat Siduri Atra-Hasis Ziusudra Apkallu (seven sages) Spirits and monsters Udug Lamassu/Shedu Asag Edimmu...

heroes Adapa Enkidu Enmerkar Gilgamesh Lugalbanda Shamhat Siduri Atra-Hasis Ziusudra Apkallu (seven sages) Spirits and monsters Udug Lamassu/Shedu Asag Edimmu...

Mesopotamia. It presents advice from a father (Shuruppak) to his son (Ziusudra) on various aspects of life, from personal conduct to social relations...