Ur-Shanabi, ferried Gilgamesh across the cosmic ocean at the border of the world

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Mankind according to this account is composed of three divine constituents out of the sacrificed god We-ilu: flesh and blood and reason (øêmu). Clay, mixed with flesh and blood and animated by øêmu, generates the human spirit and institutes man’s first and never-to-be-interrupted heartbeat. After death it is only the human spirit or eøemmu that endures, while the body – the other two-thirds of ‘clay’ – returns to the earth. The Atrahasis passage thus articulates the idea that øêmu (reason) is the crucial component of eøemmu (human spirit) at the very birth of mankind. The strange name of the sacrificed god, We-ilu, clearly embodies this idea: it is the ‘we-’ element (before ilu, ‘god’) that, added to øêmu, produces eøemmu:
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