Noah Still Alive?
It is during that encounter with Enlil, that Ziusudra, only 50% pure in his Anunnaki lineage, was granted access to eternal life. The details of what transpired on the mountain are not completely clear, but using the precedence provided in the Anunnaki writings, most likely involved a Council decision to provide access to a specific “plant of life” for the transformed and newly renamed Anunnaki club member, Ut-napishtim.
Adapa Visits Anu in Heaven
When Dumuzi and Ningishzida escorted the Adapa to meet Anu in heaven/Nibiru [14, pg. 178], as part of the ritual encounter offered by a Niburian host, the bread of life and the elixir of life are offered by Anu but refused by the mortal slave Adapa in accordance with Enki’s wishes. These concoctions were more than likely devised to overcome the damage done to Anunnaki DNA eternally perpetuating the biological renewal process. This telomere renewal process appears to have been replicated or re-engineered on Earth given the rapid aging discussed by the Anunnaki working the mines for long durations in Africa. Gilgamesh sought a plant of life that produced the same life-prolonging effects.
Having failed in his attempt to rendezvous with the gods spotted taking off and landing their rockets on the massive stone platforms located at Baalbek, Lebanon [70], king Gilgamesh contrived a plan to find Enki’s son. Noah, AKA Ziusudra, was renamed Ut-napishtim following his changed longevity status and being allowed into the “god’s private club” on Mount Ararat. If Gilgamesh could find the king of Shuruppak, called Ziusudra to the Sumerians, Noah to the readers of the Canonical Bible, then he could find out the secret given to him by Enlil atop Mount Ararat and achieve eternal life for himself too. After all, Ziusudra only had 50% pure blood and Gilgamesh had 75% pure Anunnaki lineage. Thus, it only seemed right to Ninsun’s boy Gilgamesh that he should be entitled to the same treatment. This is the catalyst for Gilgamesh’s epic tale and the background situation in Uruk approximately 2600 BCE.
At the expense of doing injustice to the entire Epic, it will not be offered as a summarized tale beyond the analysis provided herein. Several printed and online translations of the Epic of Gilgamesh are readily available to the researcher. I have a friend whose fifth-grade child was attending a private school where I reside in San Diego, California. One of the reading assignments given to the youth enrolled over the summer session was the Epic of Gilgamesh, much to my surprise and amazement. Most Americans struggle to differentiate Turkey from Iraq geographically, none the less partake of classic Middle Eastern Literature like the one originating in the astounding culture of Sumeria, modern civilization’s original genesis [41, 43]. It is no wonder parents want their children educated in private schools where the NEA approved story of modern history is not passed through the editorial scruples of the government’s story tellers prior to landing on the public furnished desks at our kid’s neighborhood school.
Gilgamesh Meets Noah
With that said, king Gilgamesh finds the great flood exiled Ut-napishtim in his quest and gets him to relate the details about the plant of life he seeks, which is harvested in the shallow waters of the ocean.
Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI [37, pg. 109]
Gilgamesh spoke to him, to Ut-napishtim, the far-distant.
“I look at you, Ut-napishtim
And your limbs are no different-you are just like me.
Indeed, you are not at all different-you are just like me.
I feel the urge to prove myself against you, to pick a fight.”
Ut-napishtim spoke to him, to Gilgamesh,
“Let me reveal to you a closely guarded matter, Gilgamesh,
And let me tell you the secret of the gods.”
From this point, the Biblical Noah tells Gilgamesh the full detailed accounting of what happened before, during, and after the great flood. Compare this accounting to that told in Genesis 7-9. Hmm, quite a different accounting of a story that was so important in the search for mankind’s true origins.
Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI [37, pg. 109]
Shuruppak is a city that you yourself know,
Situated on the bank of the Euphrates.
That city was already old when the gods within it
Decided that the great gods should make a flood.
There was Anu their father,
Warrior Ellil their counselor,
Ninurta was their chamberlain,
Ennugi their canal-controller,
Far-sighted Ea swore the oath of secrecy with them.
So he repeated their speech to a reed hut,
“Reed hut, reed hut, brick wall, brick wall,
Listen, reed hut and pay attention, brick walclass="underline"
Man of Shuruppak, son of Ubara-Tutu,
Dismantle your house, build a boat.
Leave possessions, search out living things.
Reject cattle and save lives!
Put aboard the seed of all living things, into the boat.”
(gap)
I realized and spoke to my master Ea,
“I have paid attention to the words that you spoke in this way,
My master, and I shall act upon them.
But how can I explain myself to the city, the men and the elders?”
Ea (Enki) made his voice heard and spoke,
He said to me, his servant,
“You shall speak to them thus:
I think that Ellil has rejected me,
And so I cannot stay in your city,
And I cannot set foot on Ellis’s land again.
I must go down to the Apsu and stay with my master Ea.”
The important point of this Tablet XI snippet, is to point out that Ut-napishtim attributes his fate to his father Enki who warned him of the upcoming flood and Enlil, for blessing him with eternal life.