Comments by "worn down" (@worndown8280) on "The Adam u0026 Eve Story Does Not Say What You Remember" video.
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Adam and Eve is borrowed from the Sumerian Eridu Genesis. The Torah reorders things. The first humans were eternal. The first humans helped the Sumerian gods. But they reproduced endlessly and were so noisy that the highest god, Enlil, cant sleep and requires his brother, Enki (the god of water, wisdom, and choas), to wipe the Earth clean so he could rest. Enki knowing his brother was rash and would later regret his choice took steps. Enki tells a righteous man, Utnapishtim, to build an ark, we literally have the clay tablets that have the lengths of materials needed to build it, to contain the animals so that when Enki sends the flood the animals will be saved. Utnapishtim is eternal. He does not die. But he boards the ark alone. The last survivor of the old men. He later appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
After the flood Enlil is upset and regretted his decision. While he is lamenting his decision, Enki gets together with two other Sumerian gods, this is where Genesis 1:26 comes from. The goddess envolved is named Nintu, which means rib in Sumerian and Enki keeps them in his garden. Eventually it gets back to Enlil that Enki has created more humans. Enlil enraged comes to Enki's home and demands Enki destroy the humans.
Enki tells Enlil not to worry. These humans do not live forever. They get sick, they die for like no reason at all. Enlil demands Enki cast them out of his garden. And Enki and Inanna gives Adam and Eve gift as they part. One of those gifts is a fruit of knowledge, but there were many more. And as the two humans leave the garden Enlil forces Enki to prostrate himself before the other Sumerian gods. Enki, the savior of the animals of the Earth. The creator of humans, is the snake in the Garden in the Torah. Enki's sigil is the caduceus.
He also appears in other parts of the Bible. He is the cause of the Tower of Babel incident.
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