law practice and writing. In 1882, Donnelly published Atlantis The Antediluvian World , his best ... well, and is widely credited with initiating the theme of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization ... His books include Atlantis The Antediluvian World 1882 , in which he attempted to establish that all ... more details
place of Saulot, the Antediluvian founder of clan Salubri , and diablerie diablerized him ... a bloodline of the Tzimisce and all Tzimisce vampires carry a seed of their antediluvian the Tzimisce Antediluvian uses Saulot Tremere or Tremere Goratrix s body as the vessel of his re birth since The Cathedral ... s discretion if Saulot is capable of resisting the Tzimisce Antediluvian. However, in most Gehenna scenarios ... more details
Cimmeria is a fictional land of barbarian s in antediluvian earth cp. the Hyborian Age and the homeland of Conan the Barbarian in the works of Robert E. Howard . Fictional history The origins of the Cimmerians stretch back to the Thurian Age . The Cimmerians are the descendants of colonists from Atlantis Atlantis . Living on the main Thurian continent, the colonists survived the great cataclysm which submerged Atlantis and destroyed most of the Thurian civilizations. The survivors, at this point reduced to a stone age level of sophistication, eventually found themselves locked in multigenerational warfare with survivors of a Picts Pictish colony. This prolonged conflict caused the Atlanteans to further devolve into little more than ape men. With no memory of their history or even of language and civilization itself, these beings eventually redeveloped into a people known as Cimmerians. Geography and culture Cimmeria is described as a harsh landscape with rugged mountains, dark shadowy forests and gloomy skies, and the Cimmerians are a people forged by those very harsh conditions of their land. Howard often makes reference to the Cimmerian people s hardiness and military prowess, as well as to their many other impressive skills. They can climb seemingly unscalable cliffs, track humans and animals with ease, and stalk their prey without making a sound. They are tall, dark with light colored eyes, and exceptionally strong. Despite these almost super human attributes, he goes on to point out that they are an uncivilized and tribal people. Their governing body is vaguely alluded to as the elders, suggesting a sort of tribal oligarchy. The apparent primitiveness of the Cimmerians and their sense of justice is often juxtaposed with the malevolence of the civilized races in Hyboria. This creates a very different sort of fantasy world, with the barbarians as the just and noble see Noble Savage , while the kings and civilized men and women who would be the heroes of traditional ... more details
Ad also called Aad is the great grandson of Shem , son of Noah Arabic sam ibn Nuh who came from the northeast and was the progenitor of the Adites . Noah is said to be Ad s 3rd grandfather, he being the son of Awadh , who was the son of Iram Bible Iram , who was the son of Shem the son of Noah . The Adites are among the first inhabitants of the country of the Arabians. They belong to what is known as the perished Arabs . According to the Atlantis Atlantean mythology of Ignatius L. Donnelly , Ad is said to have married 1,000 wives, had 4,000 sons, and lived 1,200 years. ref http www.fullbooks.com The Antediluvian World5.html The Antediluvian World by Ignatius L. Donnelly, part 5, chapter 1 ref His descendants multiplied considerably, populating the southernmost part of the Arabian peninsula, spreading in modern day Hadramout in Eastern Yemen . After Ad s death, his sons Shadid and Shedad reigned in succession over the Adites. Ad then became a collective term for all those descended from Ad. Iram of the Pillars Iram is the place to which the Prophets of Islam prophet Hud prophet Hud was sent in order to guide its people back to the righteous path of Islam . The citizens continued in their idolatrous ways, and Allah destroyed their city in a great storm. The Qur an mentions Ad as a collective, Iram as a capital city for the collective, and the rolling sand dunes of what is now called the Empty Quarter as the setting of this event as related in Sura h 89 6 9. Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with Ad The people of Iram, possessors of lofty buildings The like of which were not created in the other cities Iram has only two ancient historic references the first being a Sumerian cuneiform tablet, and the other being the above referenced Qur anic verse. An ancient city in the area known as Ubar dn date February 2012 is in fact said to be Iram. Citation needed date October 2009 It is said that Hud along with his close ... more details
Image P.F. Sokolov 050.jpg right thumb J zef S kowski J zef Julian S kowski lang ru , Osip Ivanovich Senkovsky OldStyleDate 31 March 1800 19 March in Antagonka, near Vilnius &ndash OldStyleDate 16 March 1858 4 March in Saint Petersburg was a Polish Russian orientalism orientalist , journalism journalist , and entertainer . J zef S kowski was born into an old family of Polish szlachta . During his study in the Vilnius University University of Vilno he became fascinated with all things oriental. Having mastered the Arabic language Arabic , Persian language Persian , Turkish language Turkish , and Hebrew language s, he was assigned to the Russian mission in Constantinople , which occupation gave him ample opportunities to travel in Syria , Nubia , and Egypt . In 1821 he returned to the Russian capital, where he got the chair in oriental languages at the University of St Petersburg . In the 1820s, S kowski started publishing in popular periodicals of Kondraty Ryleyev and Faddei Bulgarin . He is best remembered for having edited the hefty Library for Reading 1833 1856 , whose lively and humorous style as Nikolai Gogol put it attracted to literary journals even those people who had never held a book in their hands. Probably the most prolific writer of his time, S kowski contributed articles on the wide range of topics, from mathematics to medicine . Under the pen name of Baron Brambeus he published a series of fantastic voyage s, including one to the center of the Earth The Sentimental Journey to Mount Etna and another to an antediluvian Egyptian civilization flourishing on the now frozen Siberia n plain The Scientific Journey to Bear Island . As a literary critic he had no principles at all, his motto being easy reading and less thought . One day he would pronounce his friend Nestor Kukolnik to be Gogol s superior, only to place Gogol higher than Homer the very next day. Sekowski dismissed The Tale of Igor s Campaign as a clumsy fake, derogated P ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Atlantis Ascendant Type studio Artist Bal Sagoth Cover Atlantisascendant.JPG Released April 2001 Recorded November December 2000 Genre Symphonic black metal Length 48 53 Label Nuclear Blast Producer Bal Sagoth , Robert Mags Magoolagan Last album The Power Cosmic br 1999 This album Atlantis Ascendant br 2001 Next album The Chthonic Chronicles br 2006 Atlantis Ascendant is Bal Sagoth s fifth album. It was released in 2001 through Nuclear Blast . This was the first Bal Sagoth album to be recorded albeit only partially with digital recording technology. The album s primary story and lyrical concept as written by vocalist lyricist Byron Roberts centres around the exploits of a fictional nineteenth century British archaeologist and adventurer named Professor Caleb Blackthorne III, who has dedicated his life to the field of antediluvian anthropology and to seeking out evidence as to the true nature of mankind s origin. As with many protagonists in the Lovecraftian fashion, his investigations lead to madness and death. In November 2011, Atlantis Ascendant was reissued as a limited edition digipack by Nuclear Blast s affiliate label Metal Mind Productions. The reissue featured an expanded lyric booklet, additional artwork, and remastered audio. Track listing All Tracks Written By Byron Roberts , Jonny Maudling & Chris Maudling. The Epsilon Exordium 3 37 Atlantis Ascendant 5 27 Draconis Albionensis 6 18 Star Maps of the Ancient Cosmographers 5 12 The Ghosts of Angkor Wat 2 22 Cry Havoc for Glory, and the Annihilation of the Titans of Chaos The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire Part III 7 18 The Dreamer in the Catacombs of Ur 5 16 In Search of the Lost Cities of Antarctica 5 42 The Chronicle of Shadows 5 34 Six Keys to the Onyx Pyramid 2.08 Dreaming of the Atlantean Spires Alpha Bonus Track Japanese sub licensed edition only 5 03 By The Blaze of the Fire Jewels Zero Bonus Tra ... more details
italic title Ragnarok The Age of Fire and Gravel is a book by Minnesota politician Ignatius L. Donnelly published during 1883. It is a companion to the more well known work Atlantis The Antediluvian World . Author s arguments In Ragnarok, Donnelly argues that an enormous comet hit the earth 12,000 years ago, resulting in widespread fires, floods, poisonous gases, and unusually vicious, prolonged winters. The catastrophe destroyed a more advanced civilization, causing human beings, in panic and terror, to seek shelter in caves. Here they degenerate, lose all knowledge of art, literature, music, philosophy, and engineering, and become cavemen. He cites as evidence cracks, 900 feet deep, radiating out from the Great Lakes , and stretching for many miles away from the lakes. He admits it has been proposed that ice sheets caused these cracks, but makes no secret of the improbability of ice sheets producing such great cracks, which he refers to as being like cracks in a window which has been struck with a stone . He also demands why, if ice sheets could produce such cracks, why said cracks can t be found anywhere else on the globe. He also brings up surface rocks in New York City, which seems to have undergone a radical chemical change the feldspar has been converted into slate and the mica has separated out from the iron, as it would if it were undergoing tremendous heat and unbearable pressure, which would certainly be the case in the event of a comet striking the earth. He rules out other theories that could have caused this, such as nitric acid and warm rains, by pointing out that this is an isolated incident, whereas warm rains can occur at any time and place, and there s no archaeological evidence for the nitric acid s origins. He points out many legends and myths from various cultures, such as Zoroastrian , Pictish , Hindu , and Ancient Greece , that are all suggestive of a comet striking the earth, the earth catching fire, poisonous gases choking people, and flood ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria Type studio Artist Bal Sagoth Cover Lemuria.jpg Released May 1995 Recorded June 1994 Genre Blackened death metal br Symphonic black metal Length 54 57 Label Cacophonous Records Producer Reviews Last album 1993 Demo br 1993 This album A Black Moon Broods over Lemuria br 1995 Next album Starfire Burning Upon the Ice Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule br 1996 A Black Moon Broods over Lemuria , is Bal Sagoth s 1995 debut album after their 1993 demo. The album was recorded in a two week period in June 1994, but due to label problems the album was released almost a year later. The name Lemuria continent Lemuria comes from a hypothetical land mass in the Indian Ocean. The keyboard intro on this album was written and performed by Keith Appleton, the proprietor of Academy Music Studio , the studio where the album was recorded. ref http www.bal sagoth.freeserve.co.uk discography.html ref Track listing All tracks written by Byron Roberts , Jonny Maudling & Chris Maudling, except where noted. The Other Gods Hatheg Kla Hatheg Kla 1 59 music composed by Keith Appleton Dreaming of Atlantean Spires 6 15 Spellcraft & Moonfire Beyond the Citadel of Frosts 7 10 A Black Moon Broods over Lemuria 9 53 Enthroned in the Temple of the Serpent Kings 5 09 Shadows Neath the Black Pyramid 6 30 Witch Storm 5 07 The Ravening 2 23 Into The Silent Chambers of the Sapphirean Throne Sagas from the Antediluvian Scrolls 8 27 Valley of Silent Paths 1 34 Personnel Byron Roberts vocals Chris Maudling guitar Jason Porter bass guitar Jonny Maudling drums, keyboards John Piras guitar solo on The Ravening Notes Reflist References http www.bal sagoth.com Bal Sagoth official site Bal Sagoth DEFAULTSORT Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria, A Category Bal Sagoth albums Category 1995 debut albums 1990s black metal album stub ... more details
File palaeozoic museum sketch.jpg thumb 480px Hawkin s conceptual drawing of the Paleozoic Museum. Following the success of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs life sized concrete dinosaur models created for England s The Crystal Palace Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, in 1868 the Commissioners of Manhattan s newly created Central Park recruited the sculptor to create replicas of Americas America s antediluvian giants for a proposed museum in Central Park . The museum was to have been known as the Paleozoic Museum or Palaeozoic Museum , and foundations for the structure were laid by architect Frederick Law Olmsted at Central Park West and 63rd Street. Like Hyde Park, London Hyde Park s Crystal Palace, Hawkins display was to be housed within a great iron frame and an arched glass roof. Surviving sketches and photographs show that Hawkins had planned an elaborate, if anachronistic , menagerie, mixing Mesozoic dinosaurs, plesiosaurs , and mosasaurs with extinct Cenozoic mammals . However, unfortunately for Hawkins and future generations, the planned museum ran afoul of 19th Century New York s corrupt politics. After Hawkins spoke out publicly against Boss William Marcy Tweed , vandals in the employ of Tweed broke into Hawkins workshop on a spring day in 1871 and used sledge hammers to reduce the seven finished models and their molds, as well as other materials, to rubble. The ruined sculptures were then buried somewhere near the southwestern corner of the park. File hawkins studio.jpg thumb 480px Hawkin s studio in Central Park, ca. 1870. Afterwards, Hawkins went to Princeton University where he painted a number of restorations of America s Late Cretaceous environments these have survived . He also managed to build one last dinosaur, a hadrosaur Hadrosaurus foulkii . It was exhibited in Philadelphia and Washington D.C. as part of commemorations of the centenary of the Declaration of Independence in 1876. Though the hadrosaur sculptu ... more details
Ann Eliza Smith October 7, 1819 1905 born Ann Eliza Brainerd was raised in St. Albans town , Vermont St. Albans, Vermont by her parents Lawrence Brainerd and Fidelia B. Gadcombe. Ann Brainerd married J. Gregory Smith in 1842 and together they had six children. It has been believed for some time that the town of Brainerd, Minnesota was named after her. ref http explorebrainerdlakes.com community city brainerd history.htm bot generated title at explorebrainerdlakes.com ref In fact that town was rather named after her father, Lawrence Brainerd, one time Governor of Vermont and the head of numerous Vermont railroading enterprises. ref See this page for a letter dated February 25, 1971 written from Carl Zapffe a well known historian of the area , to Mr. John Stensrud then President of the Crow Wing Historical Society. http www.angelsandwomen.com ref Smith wrote essays, poems and other works. She was best known for her three novels, Seola, Selma, and Atla. Her first published work was From Dawn to Sunrise and its success caused Henry K. Adams , author of A Centennial History of St. Albans Vermont to call it t he smartest book ever written in Vermont. From Dawn to Sunrise 1876 dealt with the historical and philosophical religious ideas of mankind. Smith s second work was the novel titled Seola 1878 which was written as an antediluvian diary. The next novel published was Selma 1883 which was a Viking love story. The third novel, ATLA A Story of the Lost Island Atla 1886 , was about the sinking of the legendary lost island called Atlantis . In 1924 Seola was revised by the Bible Students later known as Jehovah s Witenesses and retitled as Angels and Women . Ann Smith wrote under her married name, Mrs. J. Gregory Smith. Both Seola and Angels and Women were published anonymously and are ascribed by the Library of Congress to her. References http www.gbgm umc.org ballardvale Byington J Byington.htm Eulogy of Ezra Hoyt Byington http www.seanet.com raines jgsmith.pdf Detail ... more details
Harold Willard Clark 1891 1986 was a prominent creationism creationist in the middle of the twentieth century. ref Numbers 2006 p136 ref Biography Clark was raised as a Seventh day Adventist Church Seventh day Adventist on a farm in New England , whose interest in science and religion was first evoked by George McCready Price s Back to the Bible 1916 . After years of church school teaching, he enrolled at Pacific Union College in 1920, where he studied under the newly arrived Price. He graduated two years later and replaced Price who had accepted a position at Union College Nebraska Union College, Nebraska on the faculty. In 1929, he had dedicated his Back to Creationism , to Price. ref name Num Numbers 2006 pp 142 143, fn13 p479 ref Historian of science Ronald L. Numbers credits this book with the introduction of the self description Creationism to the movement which had previously been known as Anti Evolution . ref http www.counterbalance.net history anticreat body.html Antievolutionists and Creationists , Ronald L. Numbers ref That summer, and a number of vacations thereafter, he spent studying glaciation , coming in the 1930s to the conclusion that large proportions of North America had been covered in ice for as long as one and a half millennia after the flood a view that was anathema to Price. In 1932 he earned an MA in biology from the University of California , and on his return updated and enlarged his book, introducing his views on glaciation, and rejecting the common Adventist view, associated with Price, that species were fixed, in favour of one that allowed considerable hybridization. The revised book drew effusive praise from Price. ref name Num In 1938, Clark visited the oil fields of Oklahoma and Northern Texas , where his observation of deep drilling confirmed long standing suspicions that there existed a meaningful geological column , a position adamantly denied by Price. Clark attributed this column to antediluvian ecologies ranging from ocean dep ... more details
Jabez Allies 1787 1856 , was an English folklorist and antiquarian . Biography Allies was one of the earliest writers on folklore . He was the second son of Mr. William Allies, and was born at Lulsley , Worcestershire , 22 October 1787, where his family had resided for generations. In early youth he was deeply impressed by the lingering relics of Ancient Rome Roman and Saxon days and by the pastoral life that characterised his native place. He served a clerkship in London, and practiced there for some years as a solicitor. Numerous papers of his were read to the Society of Antiquaries of London , of which he was elected a fellow about 1840, and at the meetings of the Royal Archaeological Institute . He showed there much aptness for antiquarian discovery, and threw light upon vestiges of Roman occupation in his native county which Nash and other historians had regarded as unidentified. Marrying Catherine, daughter of William Hartshorne, Esq., of Clipston, Northamptonshire Clipstone, Northamptonshire , by whom he had an only child, William Hartshorne who succeeded him , he quitted London, and resided some years at Worcester, at Catherine Villa, in the Lower Wick, taking part in all reunions and movements connected with Worcestershire and its history. He died 29 January 1856, at Tivoli House , Cheltenham , which he had purchased a few years before, and was buried in Leckhampton churchyard by the side of his wife, who had previously died on 28 May 1855 at the age of 74 years. Bibliography http books.google.co.uk books?id yJFAAAAAcAAJ&pg PR1 v onepage&q&f false Observations on Certain Curious Indentations in the Old Red Sandstone of Worcestershire and Herefordshire considered as the Tracks of Antediluvian Animals 1835 On the Causes of Planetary Motion 1838 On the Ancient British, Roman, and Saxon Antiquities of Worcestershire 1840 The Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove. Horne the Hunter, and Robin Hood 1845 http books.google.co.uk books?id rKQUAAAAYAAJ&pg PP7 v onepage&q&f fals ... more details
Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler 1739 2nd June 1829 She and Sarah Ponsonby quote in 1755. They formed a romantic attachment, and after several attempts to run away from their friends to England in one of which Miss Ponsonby broke her leg , were in 1778 permitted to depart with a faithful maid, Betty Carroll. They settled in a cottage at Llangollen, where they passed the remainder of their lives more than fifty years together. They were known as The Ladies of Llangollen, and were visited and petted by the world of fashion and literature. In 1829 the Duke of Wellington perpetrated the job of procuring them a government pension of 200 a year. In September 1823, Charles Mathews thus wrote from Oswestry to a friend The dear inseparable immutables, Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby, were in the boxes here on Friday. They came twelve miles from Llangollen, and returned, as they never sleep from home. Oh such curiosities I was nearly convulsed I could scarcely get on for the first ten minutes my eye caught them Though I had never seen them, I instantly knew them. As they are seated, there is not one point to distinguish them from men the dressing and powdering of the hair their well starched neckcloths the upper part of their habits, which they always wear, even at a dinner party, made precisely like men s coats, and regular black beaver men s hats. Afterwards he met in company the dear antediluvian darlings, attired for dinner in the same mummified dress, with the Croix de St. Louis, and other orders, and myriads of large brooches, with stones large enough for snuff boxes, stuck in their starched neckcloths. I have not room to describe their most fascinating persons... They have not slept one night from home for above forty years. Betty Carroll died in 1809 Lady Butler, 2nd June 1829, aged 90 Miss Ponsonby, 9th December 1831, aged 76. The virtues of all three are celebrated in long inscriptions on one stone in the churchyard of Llangollen. A minute account of these ladies ... more details
, containing a monastery and the home of the Antediluvian and his oldest Childer. Erciyes became the heart ..., a priest in life, was the only Antediluvian to adopt a human religion following Christianity in his ... level, Cappadocius sealed thousands of Kindred in the caves with the curse of an Antediluvian Let ..., and eventually betrayed his clan, diablerizing the Antediluvian and remaking it in his own image ... focused on those while ignoring the larger affairs of the world. Blessed with an unusually active Antediluvian ... more details
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onesource date September 2011 refimprove date September 2011 File Grove House, Harrogate geograph.org.uk 632636.jpg thumb right 350px Grove House, as pictured from the Skipton Road, Harrogate Grove House is a Listed building Grade II listed manor house , located in Skipton Road, Harrogate , North Yorkshire , England . Built in 1745 54 as World s End Inn, and the first house in Yorkshire to have gas lighting and heating, today it is a convalescence and old aged persons rest home, owned and operated by the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes RAOB . ref name RAOB World s End Inn 1752 1850 Built when Harrogate was expanding as a spa town , the original World s End Inn was constructed in 1752 4 as a square shaped hostelry around an inner quadrangle. There is evidence to suggest that it served as coaching inn and staging post, for passengers and mail from London to York . In 1805, it was purchased by a Mrs. Holland for use as a boarding school . In 1809 it was purchased by Yorkshire born authoress Barbara Hofland , who developed it as a ladies finishing school , a forerunner to what is now Harrogate College . But she kept it only until 1811, when she moved to London. Purchased by the Reverend T.T. Wildsmith in 1822, he converted it into a school for boys. After being unoccupied for some years, it was converted to a private house by new owner, Captain Heneby. Grove House 1850 1926 In 1850, the house was bought by engineering inventor, Samson Fox . A self made man, he had created the Leeds Forge Company , and through his invention of the corrugated flue , had made himself a multi millionaire. His descendents include the actor Edward Fox actor Edward Fox , and his daughter the actress Emilia Fox . Samson Fox built himself a fully equipped workshop in the basement, and added the Royal Stables, which included a Turkish bath for his breeding stock. The stables clock tower, and much of the interior panelling, stained glass and pasterwork t ... more details
of blood. It is assumed to be invented by the Tzimisce Antediluvian, with some speculating that Vicissitude ... be Tzimisce itself, the clan s Antediluvians World of Darkness Antediluvian founder. However ... host, in some form, are seed of the Tzimisce antediluvian. In more than one Gehenna scenario the Tzimisce antediluvian used this fact to reconstitute himself and take over Tremere s body. ref Shomshak ... more details
A fraternal organization or fraternity is a brotherhood, though the term usually connotes a distinct or formal organization. Please list fraternities and sororities college fraternities and sororities at List of social fraternities and sororities . International Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis Ancient Order of Hibernians B nai Brith Civitan Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo DeMolay International E Clampus Vitus Epsilon Sigma Alpha International Order of the Holy Sepulchre Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Fraternal Forestry Ancient Order of Foresters, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Independent Order of Foresters Fraternal Order of Eagles Fraternal Order of Moai Freemasonry Order of the Eastern Star Scottish Rite Shriners York Rite Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Illuminati Imperial Court System International Order of Alhambra International Organisation of Good Templars Independent Order of Odd Fellows International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Junior Chamber International Jaycees or Junior Chamber of Commerce United States Junior Chamber Kiwanis Aktion Club Builder s Club Circle K International K Kids Key Club Knights of Columbus Columbian Squires Knights of Pythias Lions Clubs International Militia Templi Moose International Optimist International Orange Institution Orange Order Order of the Golden Spur Order of Pius IX Order of St Gregory the Great Ordo Templi Orientis Rosicrucian Fellowship Rotary International Round Table Club Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Ruritan Samaritans charity Sertoma International Soroptimist Venerable Order of Saint John Woodmen of the World Zonta International Australia Apex Clubs of Australia Apex Knights of the Southern Cross United Grand Lodge of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory Canada AKO Fraternity Canadian Fraternal Association Fraternal Forestry Canadian Order for Home Circles Kin Canada Knights of Pythias Europe ... more details
Mesopotamian myth heroes Adapa was a Babylon ian mythical figure who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality . The story is first attested in the Kassites Kassite period 14th century BCE . Roles Adapa was a mortal from a godly lineage, a son of Ea Babylonian god Ea Enki in Sumerian , the god of wisdom and of the ancient city of Eridu , who brought the arts of civilization to that city from Dilmun , according to some versions . He broke the wings of Ninlil the South Wind, who had overturned his fishing boat, and was called to account before Anu . Ea, his patron god, warned him to apologize humbly for his actions, but not to partake of food or drink while he was in heaven, as it would be the food of death. Anu, impressed by Adapa s sincerity, offered instead the food of immortality, but Adapa heeded Ea s advice, refused, and thus missed the chance for immortality that would have been his. Parallels can be drawn to the story of Genesis, where Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden of Eden by God, after they ate from the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil , thus losing immortality. ref name Mark, Joshua Mark, Joshua 2011 , http www.ancient.eu.com article 216 The Myth of Adapa , Ancient History Encyclopedia ref Adapa is often identified as advisor to the mythical first antediluvian king of Eridu , Alulim . In addition to his advisory duties, he served as a priest and exorcist , and upon his death took his place among the Seven Sages or Apkallu Apkall . Apkallu , sage , comes from Sumerian language Sumerian AB.GAL Ab water, Gal Great a reference to Adapa, the first sage s association with water. As Oannes Oannes , Hovhannes in Armenian was the name given by the Babylon ian writer Berossus in the 3rd century BCE to a mythical being who taught mankind wisdom. Berossus describes Oannes as having the body of a fish but underneath the figure of a man. He is described as dwelling in the Persian Gulf , and rising out of the waters in the daytime and f ... more details
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