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The vessel in Berossus measures five stadia by two, and thus had a length of over three thousand feet and a breadth of more than twelve hundred. We will now return to the text and resume the comparison we were making between it and the Gilgamesh Epic. In the latter no direct reference is made to the appearance of the Sun-god after the storm, nor is Ut-napishtim represented as praying to him.
Ut-napishtim saw its beginning, but fearing to watch the storm, he entered the interior of the ship by Ea's instructions, closed the door, and handed over the direction of the vessel to the pilot Puzur-Amurri. Later a thunder-storm and hurricane added their terrors to the deluge.
The word may also be rendered "dreams". For this rendering of the verb e-de, for which Dr. Brünnow, Classified List, p. 327. For not only are the first two elements of the Sumerian name identical with those of the Semitic Ut-napishtim, but the names themselves are equated in a later Babylonian syllabary or explanatory list of words.
Then Enlil went up into the ship; Ziusudu, the king, He took me by the hand and led me forth. And let Ut-napishtim dwell afar off at the mouth of the rivers!" Or, "On a mountain, the mountain of", &c.
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