{"id":25565,"date":"2025-02-13T14:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25565"},"modified":"2025-02-13T14:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:30:40","slug":"the-imago-mundi-babylonian-directions-to-noahs-ark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/the-imago-mundi-babylonian-directions-to-noahs-ark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Imago Mundi: Babylonian Directions to Noah\u2019s Ark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first-letter\">M<\/span>ost are familiar with the biblical account of Noah\u2019s ark\u2014the vessel that saved Noah, his family and pairs of all land-dwelling animals from the Great Flood. Fewer are familiar with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/armstronginstitute.org\/23-the-great-flood-just-a-bible-story\">parallel ark\/Flood accounts<\/a>\u00a0from the ancient world. Accounts such as the more than 4,000-year-old Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, relaying the story of Utnapishtim and his ark, with parallels to the biblical account right down to the species of birds released upon landing. Another example is the Babylonian Epic of Atra-hasis, with parallels including the entrance of animals into the boat two-by-two.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/armstronginstitute.org\/1127-the-imago-mundi-babylonian-directions-to-noahs-ark\">armstronginstitute.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most are familiar with the biblical account of Noah\u2019s ark\u2014the vessel that saved Noah, his family and pairs of all land-dwelling animals from the Great Flood. Fewer are familiar with the\u00a0parallel ark\/Flood accounts\u00a0from the ancient world. Accounts such as the more than 4,000-year-old Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, relaying the story of Utnapishtim and his ark, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/the-imago-mundi-babylonian-directions-to-noahs-ark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Imago Mundi: Babylonian Directions to Noah\u2019s Ark<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6El","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25566,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25565\/revisions\/25566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}