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Adapa

noun
1.
A Babylonian demigod or first man (sometimes identified with Adam).





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... an endeavour to account for the origin of death. Adapa or Adama, the first man, who had been created by Ea, was fishing one day in the deep sea, when he broke the wings of the south wind. The south wind flew to complain to Anu in heaven, and Anu ordered the culprit to appear before him. But Adapa was instructed by Ea ...
— Patriarchal Palestine • Archibald Henry Sayce


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