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Any Egyptologists confirm? (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
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[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

A few poems written in Sumerian times, around 2100 BCE, have this starting line or similar (in those far remote times, in those days when heaven and earth were created...). The instructions of Shuruppak, Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Netherworld (not actually part of the compiled Epic), Enki and Ninmah, the Flood part of the Gilgamesh Epic...