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Adapa And Anu Analysis

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Adapa breaks the wing of the south wind and stops the wind from blowing to the land for seven days, which angers Anu. Adapa’s actions here especially concern Anu because Anu is the sky god, and in the Enuma Elish, Anu gifts the control of the winds to Marduk. Ea advises Adapa to not eat the bread of death or drink the water of death. Anu ends up offering bread and water of eternal life, but Adapa rejects this offer like Ea advised. By rejecting Anu’s offer, Adapa does not get immortality. After rejecting the offer for immortality, Adapa is sent back to his earth by Anu.
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Unlike in the Enuma Elish where the primeval forces are Sea water, Tiamat, and Fresh water, Apsu, the Plough and Earth are the originators of creation and the parents of the Sea. Another difference between Plough and Earth and Apsu and Tiamat is the way they began creation. Tiamat and Apsu “mingle their waters” to begin the creation of the primeval gods, but Plough and Earth decide to establish a family and create each portion of earth. The interaction between Earth, Plough, and Cattle God is similar to the interaction of Gaia, Ouranos, and Kronos in Hesiod’s Theogony by both interactions having the child kill the father. In the Theogony of Dunnu, Plough and Earth create the Cattle God and the Cattle God later kills Plough, his father. In Hesoid’s Theogony, Gaia gives birth to Kronos, who later kills his father Ouranos, however, in Hesoid’s Theogony, Kronos does not later marry Gaia. In the Theogony of Dunnu, the Cattle God goes on to marry Earth, his mother, after killing his father. Just like the Cattle God marrying Earth his mother, later in the Theogony of Dunnu, the Flocks God marries Sea, his mother. Before the Flocks God gets to marry his mother, he first kills his father, the Cattle God, just like the Cattle God does to his father,

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