Utnapishtim

His quest at last took him to the island of Utnapishtim, a man who had once survived the great flood sent by the gods to destroy humanity and been rewarded with immortality.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

His quest at last took him to the island of Utnapishtim, a man who had once survived the great flood sent by the gods to destroy humanity and been rewarded with immortality.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Utnapishtim and Deucalion nodded in vociferous assent.

The Arks What Weren't strannikov 2012

Minutes later, Utnapishtim, Deucalion, and Jonah were conferring with Noah.

The Arks What Weren't strannikov 2012

His quest at last took him to the island of Utnapishtim, a man who had once survived the great flood sent by the gods to destroy humanity and been rewarded with immortality.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

This combined with a free-word association with Utnapishtim, the legendary Babylonian survivor of the World Flood, evokes a Sumerian name Utu-zi 'Life-breath of the sun' being readapted to Ut-napishtim napishtim = 'life, breath' but still written in script using the Sumerograms UD-ZI1.

Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim 2009

In my previous post Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim, I finished off with the dangling idea that the name Odysseus had reached Anatolia and the Aegean by the second millenium BCE.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

This combined with a free-word association with Utnapishtim, the legendary Babylonian survivor of the World Flood, evokes a Sumerian name Utu-zi 'Life-breath of the sun' being readapted to Ut-napishtim napishtim = 'life, breath' but still written in script using the Sumerograms UD-ZI1.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

In my previous post Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim, I finished off with the dangling idea that the name Odysseus had reached Anatolia and the Aegean by the second millenium BCE.

A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus 2009

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Odysseus, Uthuze and Utnapishtim 2009