Note 943 — Chapter XXXIV · THE LEGENDS OF ADAPA, AND OF THE FLOOD

See Poebel, Historical Texts (Publications of the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania), vol. IV., Part I., pp. 9 ff. In Langdon’s Le Poème Sumérien (Paris, 1919) is to be found much, which is not written in the later account of Adapa and of the Flood, and of Paradise, and many details which are different. In it there is no woman, no temptress, no serpent. But it does record that the survivor of the Flood was placed in a garden and apparently forbidden to eat of the fruit of a tree, growing in the centre of the garden. He does eat, however, and thereby loses immortality.