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Five flood accounts: a comparison reference
Find five flood traditions by their own work, passage and review record.
| Reading route | Work / passage identity | Question to follow |
|---|---|---|
| Ziusudra | Sumerian flood account / Eridu Genesis | Which surviving lines supply the event, and where are the gaps? |
| Atrahasis | Akkadian Atrahasis tradition | How does the work connect human life and the catastrophe? |
| Utnapishtim | Gilgamesh, Tablet XI | Who tells the embedded story, and to whom? |
| Noah | Genesis 6–9 | Which instructions and covenant claims belong to the Genesis account? |
| Manu | Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 1.8.1 | What does the fish do in this particular account? Do not silently substitute a later Matsya narrative. |
Use the existing passage records
Each route opens the earlier source-linked companion. This table compares reading addresses and questions rather than claiming a single historical worldwide flood or an exact common date. The age of a surviving copy is separate from the age of a composition or the event it narrates.