Ea's role in Gilgamesh??

Question

I know that Ea is a god in the city of Shurrupak. Ea's warning to the man, I think Gilgamesh (right?), to build a boat to escape the great flood. How does Ea know the man? And what oath does he have to the man??

Answer 1

Ea is the Akkadian name of the Sumerian god Enki, a god of underground fresh water and of wisdom.

Ea warned Ut-napishtim, not Gilgamesh, of the coming flood. We are not told why. See references below to variant versions of this story. The flood hero is variously called Ut-napishtim, Siusudra, and Atrahasis.

Enki/Ea is always the god who acts against Enlil, the god who orders the flood, by warning the flood hero. We are never told how Enki/Ea knows the hero. Since Enki/Ea is a god, we probably don’t need to be told. Nor is there any oath.

Answer 2

i don't remember the book(read last year).

Try looking the book up on sparknotes or cliffnotes.

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