UTNAPISHTIM

Meaning of UTNAPISHTIM in English

/oot'neuh pish"tim/ , n. (in the Poem of Gilgamesh )

the favorite of the gods, who survived the great flood and became immortal.

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URSHANABI — [Mesopotamian] The boatman of Utnapishtim who ferries daily across the waters of death which divide the garden of the sun …
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UBARA-TUTU — [Mesopotamian] A king of Shurrupak (modern Fara, north-west of Uruk) and father of Utnapishtim. The only king of Kish named …
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PUZUR-AMURRI — [Mesopotamian] The steersman of Utnapishtim during the flood.
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NISIR — [Mesopotamian] The biblical Ararat, where the ark of the Babylonian hero Utnapishtim finally beached.
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NIMUSH — [Mesopotamian] In Babylonian mythology, the mountain where Utnapishtim's boat beached after the great flood.
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