So, it is possible that the myths regarding the Anunnaki originate in the reality that was the Nephilim. It is definitely interesting to note that both the biblical flood account and the Epic of Gilgamesh mention supernatural, god-like beings interacting with humanity in connection with a global flood. Is there a connection between the Anunnaki and the Nephilim? Perhaps. While there are differing interpretations of this passage, believes it involves the fallen angels (sons of God) taking on human form and mating with the daughters of men (human females), thereby producing a race of angelic-human half-breeds. Who were the Nephilim? Biblically speaking, the Nephilim were the descendants of the sons of God and daughters of men (Genesis 6:1-4). In contrast to this pagan mythology is the biblical account of the Nephilim. This week, we're continuing our discussion of heroes by talking about Gilgamesh, star of one of the earliest written hero stories, The Epic. The gods who appear in the Epic of Gilgamesh are the Anunnaki, a name that probably means “those of royal blood” or “princely offspring” in the ancient Sumerian language. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Bilgamesh (Sumerian for 'Gilgamesh'), king of Uruk, dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BC). Rather than the Genesis flood account being copied from the Epic of Gilgamesh, both accounts are entirely separate records of something that actually occurred, namely, a global flood. The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. The existence of this flood story, with its many similarities to the Genesis account, indicates a common source. Their unlikely friendship results in a journey of fantastical adventures resulting in the death of Enkidu.Īn important feature of this epic is a “flood” story in which a character named Utnapishtim and his wife survive a great flood and obtain immortality. He has oppressed the people of Uruk, so the gods create Enkidu to distract Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, is two-thirds god and one-third man. The story centers on the friendship between the principal character, Gilgamesh, and Enkidu. Several versions of the epic poem exist, but the 12-tablet Akkadian version is the best known. modern Western thought) and its relationship with the definition of divinity. The Epic of Gilgamesh is one such mythology. The Standard Babylonian Version of the Epic of Gilgamesh offers numerous. Utnapishtim was the only man to escape death, since, having preserved human and animal life in the great boat he built, he and his wife were deified by the god Enlil.
Ancient Sumer-Babylon, like many cultures of antiquity, produced mythologies to explain the world around them. The Epic of Gilgamesh confronts a number of important themes, but none is more prominent than that of confronting ones mortality. Utnapishtim, in the Babylonian Gilgamesh epic, survivor of a mythological flood whom Gilgamesh consults about the secret of immortality.
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