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Thursday 3 January 2019

Utu-Abzu

UTU-ABZU


By the time the Ancient Greeks found the Sumerian records about Enoch the account and name of Enoch recorded in Sumerian by Babylonians had changed somewhat. The number seven was still important and the person likely to be Enoch was still “seventh from Adam” or at least seventh from the person likely to be Adam. Enoch was still known to have ascended to heaven and like the other six in the succession was recognised as a very important sage in the times before the Flood - the last of the seven sages before the Flood - the seven sages the Babylonians called the Apkallu in Akkadian (Abgal in Sumerian)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apkallu . By the time these sages were called Apkallu the one who ascended, the seventh, was known as Utu-Abzu. Note that UTU was the name by which God was known in times of Noah, and the city of Enoch, Sippar, was dedicated to UTU. Abzu was the word for the waters under the earth.