Sumer and Babylon · Adapa myth
Adapa refuses the bread of life
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Adapa breaks the wing of the South Wind and is summoned to Anu's heaven. Enki warns him to refuse the food and drink he is offered, because it is the bread and water of death. It was really the bread and water of life, and Adapa loses immortality.
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Read it literally
Two visitor factions give a human opposite advice about longevity. Enki kept humans mortal on purpose.
What scholars say
Adapa is counted among the seven sages.
