Marlee White CLT3378-09: Extra Credit Assignment Mjw11b@my.fsu.

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Adapa, the first human, breaks the wing of the South wind angering Anu. This upsets Anu because he is the Sky God and therefore owns the winds as we saw in the Enuma Elish when he gave them to Marduk. Before going to apologize Ea advises Adapa to not accept any food or drink because it will probably be food of death as Adapas punishment. By the end of the poem, this resembles when Ea tells Kumarbi that he is eating Tessub but its really just a stone. The resemblance appears when Ea seems to be giving the main characters - Kumarbi and Adapa- advice but in turn is helping himself; he wants to keep Adapa in his place and therefore does not want him eating/drinking anything that could give him immortality. Anu ends up offering food and drink of immortality. By refusing it, as per Eas advice, Adapa and the rest of humanity do not gain eternal life. In the Theogony of Dunnu, the first two gods in existence were Plough and Earth. These two differ from Apsu and Tiamat because they are the parents of the sea and not the actual sea. They also differ in that it was Plough and earths son plotting to kill one of them, unlike Apsu the father plotting to kill his children. The interaction between Earth, Plough and Cattle God is similar to that of Gaia, Ouranos and Kronos because both Cattle God and Kronos stop their fathers from being able to sexually reproduce and affect their mothers in turn-by marriage and by separating her female area from her husbands after a very long time. They obviously differ from each other because when the sons step up to kill/castrate their fathers, Gaia is the one upset with her husband and Earth never was. Also in that Kronos castrates his dad and Cattle God murders his. Similar to Cattle God marrying his mother Earth, eventually his son the Flocks God marries his mother Sea. Just like how Cattle God murders his father to gain dominion, his son the Flocks God kills him to gain dominion. This poem is similar in performative context to that of the Enuma Elish because they were both had something to do with that of their cultures New Years. The Enuma Elish was always performed during the Babylonian New Year and the Theogony of Dunnu plot seems to change when leading up to the New Years indicating a connection.