Word: adapa
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Perhaps there is another way, besides literary theft, to account for the coincidences. The scientists may continue their studies, and perhaps uncover a new Ossian scandal; but meanwhile it is safe to make what conjectures our imaginations suggest. The Hebrew Adam tasted forbidden fruit to gain knowledge; the Sumerian Adapa did likewise; the temptation in each case involved a woman; both were driven out of their paradises in the Euphrates Valley to toil in unproductive fields; finally the descendants of both were chastened by a flood which wiped out all but the worthy. In fine, it might seem almost reasonable...
Among the Babylonian cuneiform tablets from the library of Amenophis IV (king of Egypt, 15th century B. C.) is one which records how Adapa, disturbed by the South-Wind while fishing, broke the South-Wind's wing, and had to answer for his deed before Anu, the god of the heavens. This tablet will be the subject of Professor Lyon's reading in the Fogg Museum at 4 p. m. today...
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