CLAA05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Adapa, Eridu, Enlil
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One of the seven sages from before the flood (antedivulan) Eridu believed to be the oldest mesopotamian city and the first to receive kingship from heaven. Eridu made with baked bricks (thus eroded) and excavations reveal that it was built over and over with an origin as a very small, three-room shrine. Ea creates adapa as a sage for mankind mortal, clever and extra-wise. Adapa baked with the bakers and cooked for ea. One day he goes to fish and the south wind drowned his boat. He curses the south wind, breaking his wing. Anu asks what happened and he is told about adapa and the south wind, so he summons adapa. Ea tousles adapa"s hair and dresses him in mourning clothes giving him specific instructions on how to behave in heaven. Adapa arrives and follows the instructions to joke with dumuzi and gizzida (mourning because they have vanished) and explains to anu why he broke the.
