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In the Atrahasis Epic, one of the oldest Mesopotamian flood accounts, the god Enlil unleashes a devastating flood specifically to wipe out humanity for good, furious that their noise had disturbed his sleep. 😤🌧️ But the flood turns out to be far worse for the gods than anyone expected. With no humans left to offer food or sacrifice, the gods themselves go hungry, reduced, the text says, to "filling their windpipes with bleating" like starving sheep. 🐑😩 When Atrahasis, the one human Enki secretly warned, finally emerges from his boat and offers a sacrifice, the gods can't help themselves. The tablets describe them "smelling the sweet savor" and gathering "like flies over the offering," starving for the first time in their existence. 🪰🔥 Enlil spots the surviving boat and is enraged, realizing only Enki could have been clever enough to defy him. Enki doesn't deny it, standing before the assembled gods and admitting plainly that he made sure "life was preserved." 😠⚖️ The great mother goddess Nintu goes even further, declaring that Enlil alone, the one who "irrationally brought about the flood," should be barred from ever eating the sacrifice again. 🚫🍖 In this video, we walk through this entire confrontation exactly as the ancient text describes it. 🔍

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