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Updated: August 9, 2024
There appears to me no justification for splitting the Semitic narrative into the several versions suggested, since the assumption that the direct warning and the dream-warning must be distinguished is really based on a misunderstanding of the character of Sumerian dreams by which important decisions of the gods in council were communicated to mankind.
II. The Antediluvian Cities. III. The Council of the Gods, and Ziusudu's piety. IV. The Dream-Warning. V. The Deluge, the Escape of the Great Boat, and the Sacrifice to the Sun-god. VI. The Propitiation of the Angry Gods, and Ziusudu's Immortality.
"The knife of the dream! Isaac, I'm faint with fear. Take me away before she comes back." He was hardly able to support her. The visible, tangible reality of the knife struck him with a panic, and utterly destroyed any faint doubts that he might have entertained up to this time in relation to the mysterious dream-warning of nearly eight years before.
That is precisely the manner in which Kronos warned Xisuthros of the coming Deluge in the version of Berossus; while in the Gilgamesh Epic the apparent contradiction between the direct warning and the dream-warning at once disappears.
But he would have us divorce the direct warning from the dream-warning, and he concludes that no less than three different versions of the story have been worked together in the Gilgamesh Epic.
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