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[Jona Lendering]

I've finally finished my set of five pages on ancient Flood narratives. Making them, I gradually discovered that it is impossible to treat them without the Creation stories: in Sumer, in Babylonia, in Judah, and in Greece, the Creator has some troubles with his first creatures, and uses the Flood as some sort of new start.

I've also put online the texts themselves:
* The Eridu Genesis (a Sumerian Creation + Deluge story)
* The Epic of Atrahasis (the Babylonian equivalent)
* Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh (retelling in the first person, a powerful text)
* The story by Berossus (Hellenistic)
* The account from the Bible, and an attempt to reconstruct the original wording
* Both stories from the Quran, which can only partly be based on the Bible and contains an intrigueing Babylonian parallel
* Greek and Roman texts: Apollodorus, Hyginus, Ovid
* And a word on the archaeology of the Flood