The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh / The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith

by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge

[Ea deifies Uta-Napishtim and his Wife.]

198. "Then the god Ea went up into the ship,

199. He seized me by the hand and brought me forth.

200. He brought forth my wife and made her to kneel by my side.

2O1. He turned our faces towards each other, he stood between us, he blessed us [saying],

202. Formerly Uta-Napishtim was a man merely,

203. But now let Uta-Napishtiin and his wife be like unto the gods, ourselves.

204. Uta-Napishtim shall dwell afar off, at the mouth of the rivers."