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>Impressed with Adapa his own descendant, and when Adapa refuses he is sent back to earth and dies

>These metaphors of the ‘wilderness’ are closely related to those centred around ‘the South’, which from the earliest Sumerian mythologies referred to the Ap-su. This name held the meaning of ‘the oceans’ (ab) – depths (zu)’, and in its metaphorical aspects thus became the more widely applicable ‘region of the South’. As the lowest of the tri-partite division of the cosmos, (and Earth) into three ‘haranu’ (or ‘Ways’), it was overseen by the (serpent) deity Enki/Ea, (the son of the ‘father of the heavens’ Anu and brother of Enlil, the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon)

>Enki’s main epithet was indeed, the ‘Lord of the South’, as such being the underground region(s) from where all ‘waters’ came, namely the subterranean aquifers and reservoirs from where rivers and streams spring. The ambiguous nature of the ‘waters’ was emphasized in early Sumerian myths of goddesses of the ‘deep’, such as Nammu (the mother of Enki, in myths including ‘Enki and Ninmah’) and Tiamat, (in the Enuma Elish) both of whom were described as mothers ‘who gave birth to heaven and earth’ as such. In many Mesopotamian works, inimical cosmic forces were gradually also characterised by related concepts, such as the South Wind in works such as the myth of ‘Adapa and the South Wind’, and in the Epic of Gilgamesh, in which the onset of the Deluge came with the South Wind

>It is in a similar sense that the nomadic tribe of the Suteans (meaning ‘Southerners’) in Akkadian myths were depicted as forces of chaos, or destruction, while the demoness ‘daughter-of-Anu’ Lamastu was a Sutean also

>>17799861
>Thus, the tribal designation at Mari, DUMU.MEŠ-yamin(a), "Yaminites," bears the same connotation as Benjamin – "son(s) of the South," i.e., southerners, and it is preferable to render the logogram for "sons" as West Semitic bini-yamina a form conveniently homophonic with the Hebrew Binyamin

>It is in a similar sense that the nomadic tribe of the Suteans (meaning ‘Southerners’) in Akkadian myths were depicted as forces of chaos, or destruction, while the demoness ‘daughter-of-Anu’ Lamastu was a Sutean also. It is a matter of some interest that scholars such as Amar Annus believe the ‘sons of Seth’ in the lineage of mankind opposite to the line of Cain were derived from these Mesopotamian (and Egyptian) mythologies based around the Suteans/Seth/Sheth/Set, whereby he argues the Hebrews may have originated from these nomadic Semitic tribes, circa 1800 BCE

>“The name of the land and the deity of the Shasu/Sutean groups locates them in southern Jordan in the 14-13th centuries BCE. The Shasu/Sutean population joined the settler groups, which later became Israel. In other words… they formed a part of the genesis of religious identity in the new states of Judah and Israel. According to the written sources, the southern origin of YHWH was still remembered many centuries later. Numerous references in the Hebrew Bible place the origin of YHWH to southern arid regions…(thus explaining) Habbakuk’s words, ‘YHWH came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran’ (Hab3.3)”

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Btw There is a thing similar to the Death Note in Sumerian Mythology called the Tablet of Destinies. This is connected to Ninurta (Sumerian Saturn), Anzu (Sumerian Two-Headed Eagle), Lamashtu (Sumerian Lilith) and the Shutu/Suteans (as the Sumerians called the Shasu/Habiru, i.e. Proto-Jews). Pic related.

>In Mesopotamian mythology, the Tablet of Destinies (Sumerian: 𒁾𒉆𒋻𒊏 dub namtarra; Akkadian: ṭup šīmātu, ṭuppi šīmāti) was envisaged as a clay tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing, also impressed with cylinder seals, which, as a permanent legal document, conferred upon the god Enlil his supreme authority as ruler of the universe. His aptitude as the greatest god gives him power over the other gods; only he has the ability to transform present circumstances back into their original state – redefining the course of fate. It is a major literary motif in ancient Sumerian myths including Ninurta and the Turtle, and in Akkadian myths including Enuma Elish

>In the Sumerian poem Ninurta and the Turtle it is the god Enki, rather than Enlil, who holds the Tablet; it therefore resides with Enki in the Abzu (the primeval sea below the void space of the underworld (Kur) and the earth (Ma) above). Both this poem and the Akkadian Anzû poem concern the theft of the tablet by the bird Imdugud (Sumerian) or Anzû (Akkadian) from its original owner (Enki or Enlil).[6] In the end, the Tablet is recovered by the god Ninurta and returned to Enlil

>The Tablet of Destinies is an important device in the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, in which Tiamat bestows this tablet on Kingu when she takes him as her consort and gives him command of her army. The tablet is seized by the god Marduk after his defeat of Qingu

http://www.melammu-project.eu/database/gen_html/a0000567.html

http://www.melammu-project.eu/database/gen_html/a0001500.html

https://www.cosmic-number.com/the-bible-and-cosmic-number/