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The 7 Apkallu: Fish-Men Who Taught Humanity BEFORE the Flood - Listed in Order They Came

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Who were the seven fish-men said to have taught humanity before the Flood—and why did the last one ascend to heaven?

Explore the 7 Apkallu in the order they came, from Uanna, linked to Oannes, to Utuabzu. Discover the strange epithets of these ancient Mesopotamian sages, including one known for all-encompassing intelligence and another called the conjurer of Eridu.

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Sources: - Mesopotamian Protective Spirits: The Ritual Texts — F. A. M. Wiggermann - Secrecy and the Gods: Secret Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia and Biblical Israel — Alan Lenzi - The Babyloniaca of Berossus — translated and edited by Stanley Mayer Burstein - On the Origin of Watchers: A Comparative Study of the Antediluvian Wisdom in the Book of Enoch and the Mesopotamian Tradition — Amar Annus - The Context of Scripture, Volume 1: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World — edited by William W. Hallo

00:00 Introduction 02:32 Item 1: Uanna 09:12 Item 1: Uanna (Part 2) 16:31 Item 1: Uanna (Part 3) 23:48 Item 2: Uannedugga 30:29 Item 2: Uannedugga (Part 2) 37:21 Item 2: Uannedugga (Part 3) 44:19 Item 3: Enmedugga 50:55 Item 3: Enmedugga (Part 2) 57:01 Item 3: Enmedugga (Part 3) 1:03:07 Item 4: Enmegalamma 1:09:11 Item 4: Enmegalamma (Part 2) 1:15:13 Item 4: Enmegalamma (Part 3) 1:20:49 Item 5: Enmebulugga 1:26:33 Item 5: Enmebulugga (Part 2) 1:32:38 Item 5: Enmebulugga (Part 3) 1:38:38 Item 6: Anenlilda 1:44:30 Item 6: Anenlilda (Part 2) 1:50:35 Item 6: Anenlilda (Part 3) 1:57:13 Item 7: Utuabzu 2:03:23 Item 7: Utuabzu (Part 2) 2:09:24 Item 7: Utuabzu (Part 3) 2:15:50 Conclusion

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