THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH English version by N. K. ... - Rosemike.net

early times, with great temples to the gods Anu and Ishtar. Traditionally the enemy of
the city of Kish, and after the flood the seat of a dynasty of kings, among whom
Gilgamesh was the fifth and most famous.
UTNAPISHTIM: Old Babylonian Utanapishtim, Sumerian Ziusudra; in the Sumerian
poems he is a wise king and priest of Shurrupak; in the Akkadian sources he is a
wise citizen of Shurrupak. He is the son of Ubara-Tutu, and his name is usually
translated, 'He Who Saw Life'. He is the protégé of the god Ea, by whose connivance
he survives the flood, with his family and with 'the seed of all living creatures';
afterwards he is taken by the gods to live for ever at 'the mouth of the rivers' and given
the epithet 'Faraway'; or according to the Sumerians he fives in Dilmun where the sun
rises.
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