Adapa
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Adapa was a Mesopotamian mythical figure who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality. The story, commonly known as "Adapa and the South Wind", is known from fragmentary tablets from Tell el-Amarna
Oannès – Adapa from Odilon Redon in the Kröller-Müller Museum
Alulim
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Alulim was a mythological Mesopotamian ruler, regarded as the first king ever to rule. He is known from the Sumerian King List, Ballad of Early Rulers, and other similar sources which invariably place
Adapa
…name of the first Apkallu. If identified as the first Apkallu, Adapa would have been the adviser of the mythical first (antediluvian) king of Eridu, Alulim. That connection is found in some texts, with King Alulu (Ref STT 176+185, lines 14–15). Elsewhere, he is associated with the much-later King Enmerkar…
The Weld-Blundell Prism, inscribed with the Sumerian King List, a text which mentions Alulim
Weld-Blundell Prism, initial paragraph about rule of Alulim and Alalngar in Eridu for 64,800 years