Note 936 — Chapter XXXIV · THE LEGENDS OF ADAPA, AND OF THE FLOOD

From Karl Frank, Babylonische Beschwörtunge Reliefs, p. 80. The South Wind was specially dreaded, because it caused destructive floods in the low-lying regions of the Euphrates valley. In Langdon’s Sumerian Epic of Paradise (op. cit., 1915), p. 41, we find that “Adapa sailed to catch fish, the trade of Eridu,” a pretty and simple touch identifying the god with his worshippers, and his pursuit with their trade; and one which supports the theory that to the Babylonian his god, in early times, was a being very similar to himself, if more powerful.