Adapa
Sign in to savethumb|Oannès – Adapa from Odilon Redon in the [[Kröller-Müller Museum]]
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- Instance of
- literary character
- Gender
- male
- Father
- Enki
- Country
- Babylonia
- Country of origin
- Eridu
- Image
- Chaos Monster and Sun God.png
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- Babylonia
- time period
- ancient history
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- Adapa
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- Sumerian religion
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- Overview
- Summary
- Other myths
- Legacy
- Interpretation
- As Uanna/Oannes
- As Adam
- References
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thumb|Oannès – Adapa from Odilon Redon in the [[Kröller-Müller Museum]]
Adapa was a Mesopotamian mythical figure who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality. The story, commonly known as "Adapa and the South Wind", is known from fragmentary tablets from Tell el-Amarna in Egypt (around 14th century BC) and from finds from the Library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria (around 7th century BC). The oldest tradition about him is from Me-Turan/Tell Haddad tablets (around 19th–16th century BC), which is written in Sumerian.
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