Participants will gain access to translations, insights into key texts like the Enuma Elish, Epic of Gilgamesh, and Myth of Adapa, and strategies for navigating faith and new information.
Adapa gets a shout-out in that Sumerian Kings List, reminding readers of Enoch ascending to heaven.
Uanna (Adapa): the first sage, in the reign of King Ayalu (Alulim) of Eridu View Map.
"Adapa" is treated as a short form of his full name, Uanadapa, and Berossus calls him Oannes.
Each row pairs one Mesopotamian sage with a planet and with figures from Greece, India, China, the Hebrew Bible and other traditions, for example Uanna (Adapa) with Confucius and the Sun, Uannedugga with Solon and the Moon, and Enmegalamma with Moses and Mercury.
Enki then advises that they create a servant of the gods, humankind, out of clay and blood. Against Enki's wish, the gods decide to slay Kingu, and Enki finally consents to use Kingu's blood to make the first human, with whom Enki always later has a close relationship, the first of the seven sages, seven wise men or "Abgallu" (ab = water, gal = great, lu = man), also known as Adapa.
Adapa, the first man fashioned, later goes and acts as the advisor to the King of Eridu, when in the Sumerian King-List, the me of "kingship descends on Eridu".