The Sumerian Tablet That Says Enki Begged the First Species for Something — And Describes What

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n the Atrahasis Epic, the god Enlil can't sleep. 😴🔊 Humanity has multiplied and grown so noisy that he decides to cut their numbers, and he sends a plague. 🌍☠️ The wise Atrahasis turns to his god Enki and asks how long the gods will make people suffer. 🙏❓ Enki's answer is one of the strangest pieces of advice in ancient literature. He tells Atrahasis to gather the elders, have heralds proclaim a message across the land, and stop revering their own gods and goddesses. 📢👴 Instead they should seek out the door of Namtar, the god of plague, and bring him a baked loaf and a flour offering. 🍞🚪 The idea is that Namtar will be so embarrassed by the attention and gifts that he'll wipe away his punishing hand. 😳✋ The elders build Namtar a temple, and the plague lifts. 🏛️✅ Centuries later, when Enlil sends a drought through the rain god Adad, Enki gives Atrahasis the same strategy, and Adad releases his rain. 🌧️🔁 Enlil is furious that his plans keep failing, and it pushes him toward the final solution, the flood. 😠🌊 In this video, we walk through Enki's plague and drought workaround exactly as the tablets tell it. 🔍

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