Eridu Genesis

Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth,^[1][2] offers a description of the story surrounding how humanity was created by the gods, how the office of kingship entered human civilization, the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global flood.^[3]

Other Sumerian creation myths include the Barton Cylinder, the Debate between sheep and grain and the Debate between Winter and Summer, also found at Nippur.^[4] Other flood myths appear in the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Genesis creation narrative.

Eridu Genesis is also – most famously – told as the story of Noah and his ark from the biblical Book of Genesis.^[5]