THE DELUGE - The Icesheet That Slipped off the Whiteland

An account of the Deluge (Noah's flood) taken from "The Tenth Tablet" of "The Lost Book of Enki".

Now this is the account of the Deluge that over the Earth swept
And how the Anunnaki escaped, and how Ziusudra in the boat survived.

For days before the Day of the Deluge the Earth was rumbling, groan as with pain it did;
For nights before the calamity struck, in the heavens Nibiru as a glowing star was seen;
Then there was darkness in daytime, and at night the Moon as though by a monster was swallowed.
The Earth began to shake, by a netforce before unknown it was agitated.
In the glow of dawn, a black cloud arose from the horizon,
The morning's light to darkness changed, as though by death's shadow veiled.
Then the sound of a rolling thunder boomed, lightnings the skies lit up.
Depart! Depart! Utu to the Anunnaki gave the signal.

Crouched in the boats of heaven, the Anunnaki heavenward were lofted.
In Shurubak, eighteen leagues away, the bright eruptions by Ninagal were seen:
Button up! Button up the hatch! Ninagal to Ziusudra shouted.
Together the trapdoor that the hatch concealed they pulled down;
Watertight, enclosed completely, was the boat; inside not a ray of light penetrated.

On that day, on that unforgettable day, the Deluge with a roar began;
In the Whiteland, at the Earth's bottom, the Earth's foundations were shaking;
Then with a roar to a thousand thunders equal, off its foundations the icesheet slipped,
By Nibiru's unseen netforce it was pulled away, into the south sea crashing.
One sheet of ice into another icesheet was smashing,
The Whiteland's surface like a broken eggshell was crumbling.

All at once a tidal wave arose, the very skies was the wall of waters reaching.
A storm, its ferocity never before seen, at the Earth's bottom began to howl,
Its winds the wall of water were driving, the tidal wave northward was spreading;
Northward was the wall of waters onrushing, the Abzu lands it was reaching.
Therefrom toward the settled lands it traveled, the Edin it overwhelmed.
When the tidal wave, the wall of waters, Shurubak reached,
The boat of Ziusudra the tidal wave from its moorings lifted,
Tossed it about, like a watery abyss the boat it swallowed.
Though completely submerged, the boat held firm, not a drop of water into it did enter.
Outside the storm's wave the people overtook like a killing battle,
No one his fellow man could see, the ground vanished, there was only water.
All that once on the ground stood by the mighty waters away was swept;
Before day's end the watery wall, gathering speed, the mountains overwhelmed.

In their celestial boats the Anunnaki the Earth were circling.
Crowding the compartments, against the outer walls they crouched,
What was happening upon the Earth, down below, to see they strained.
From the celestial boat in which she was, Ninmah like a woman in travail cried out:
My created like drowned dragonflies in a pond the waters fill,
All life by the rolling sea wave away was taken! Thus did Ninmah cry and moan.
Inanna, who was with her, also cried and lamented:
Everything down below, all that lived, has turned into clay!
Thus did Ninmah and Inanna weep; they wept and eased their feelings.

In the other celestial boats the Anunnaki by the sight of unbridled fury were humbled,
A power greater than theirs they with awe those days witnessed.
For the fruits of Earth they hungered, for fermented elixir they thirsted.
The olden days, alas, to clay have turned! So to each other the Anunnaki said.

After the immense tidal wave that over the Earth swept,
The sluices of heaven opened, a downpour from the skies upon the Earth was unleashed.
For seven days the waters from above with the waters of the Great Below were mingled;
Then the wall of water, its limits reaching, its onslaught ceased,
But the rains from the skies for forty more days and nights continued.
From their perches the Anunnaki looked down: Where there were dry lands, now was a sea of water,
And where mountains once to the heavens their peaks raised,
Their tops now like islands were in the waters;
And all that on the dry lands was living in the avalanche of waters perished.

Then, as in the Beginning, the waters to their basins were gathered,
Waving back and forth, day by day the water level came lower.
Then, forty days after the Deluge over the Earth swept, the rains also stopped.
After the forty days Ziusudra the boat's hatch opened, his whereabouts to survey.
A bright day it was, a gentle breeze was blowing;
All alone, with no other sign of life, the boat upon a vast sea was lolling.
Mankind, all living things, off the Earth's face are wiped out,
No one except us few survived, but there is no dry land to set a foot upon!
So did Ziusudra to his kinfolk say as he sat down and lamented.

At that time Ninagal, by Enki appointed, the boat toward the twin peaks of Arrata directed,
A sail for her he shaped, toward the Mount of Salvation he the boat guided.
Impatient Ziusudra was; birds that were on board he released
To check for dry land, for surviving vegetation to verify he sent them.
He sent forth a swallow, he sent forth a raven; both to the boat returned.
He sent forth a dove; with a twig from a tree to the boat it returned!
Now Ziusudra knew that the dry land from under the waters had emerged.
A few more days, and the boat by rocks was arrested:
The Deluge is over, at the Mount of Salvation we are! So did Ninagal to Ziusudra say.

Opening the watertight hatch, from the boat Ziusudra emerged;
The sky was clear, the Sun was shining, a gentle wind was blowing.
Hurriedly upon his spouse and children he to come out called.
The lord Enki let us praise, to him thanks give! to them Ziusudra said.
With his sons stones he gathered, with them an altar he built,
Then a fire on the altar he lit, with aromatic incense he made a fire.
A ewe-lamb, one without blemish, for a sacrifice he selected,
And upon the altar to Enki the ewe-Iamb as a sacrifice he offered.

At that time Enlil from his celestial boat to Enki words conveyed:
Let us in Whirlwinds from the celestial boats upon the peak of Arrata descend,
The situation to review, what to be done to determine!
While the others in their celestial boats the Earth to circuit continued,
Enlil and Enki in Whirlwinds upon the peak of Arrata descended.
Smiling the two brothers met, with joy their arms they locked.
Then Enlil by the whiffs of fire and roasting meat was puzzled.
What is that? to his brother he shouted. Has anyone the Deluge survived?
Let us go and see! meekly to him Enki responded.

In their Whirlwinds to the other peak of Arrata they flew over,
The boat of Ziusudra they saw, by the altar that he had built they landed.
When Enlil the survivors saw, Ninagal among them, his fury no bounds had.
Every Earthling had to perish! he with fury shouted; at Enki with anger he lunged,
To kill his brother with his bare hands he was ready.
He is no mere mortal, my son he is! Enki, to Ziusudra pointing, cried out.
For a moment Enlil was hesitating. You broke your oath! at Enki he shouted.
To a reed wall I spoke, not to Ziususdra! Enki said, then to Enlil the dream-vision related.

By then, by Ninagal alerted, Ninurta and Ninmah in their Whirlwinds also touched down;
When the account of events they heard, Ninurta and Ninmah by the account were not angered.
The survival of Mankind the will of the Creator of All must be! So did Ninurta to his father say.
Ninmah her necklace of crystals, a gift of Anu, touched and swore:
On my oath, the annihilation of Mankind shall never be repeated!

Relenting, Enlil by the hands Ziusudra and Emzara his spouse took and blessed them thus:
Be fruitful and multiply, and the Earth replenish!

Thus were the Olden Times ended.

The above account of the Deluge was taken from "The Lost Book of Enki" by Zecharia Sitchin.

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