Adapa, the priest of Eridu, breaks the wing of the south wind and is summoned before An. Offered the bread and water of life, he refuses on Enki’s instruction — and so loses immortality for humankind.
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Tradition
Akkadian myth, attested from the Amarna period onward. Read by some scholars as a structural counterpart to the Eden / forbidden-fruit narrative.
Translation
R. W. Rogers, *Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament* (New York: Eaton & Mains, 1912), pp. 67-75. Editor's connecting synopsis and footnotes have been removed; only the translated lines are retained. Public domain.
License
Public domain (pre-1929 English translation). Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.