One Simple Explanation of our Truth
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In the Adapa and South Wind Myth Gishzida (Ningishzida in other myths) on Anu's behalf offers man (Adapa) the "bread of life" which, if eaten, will give mankind immortality. Adapa refuses to eat of it having been forewarned by his god Ea of Eridu that it is the "bread of death" and do not eat of it or he will surely die.
Unlike Adam, Adapa obeys his god and refuses to eat the "forbidden food," and thus forfeits immortality. I understand the Hebrews reworked this story via an inversion and had man eating the forbidden food and thus losing at a chance at immortality.
Thus Ningishzida "plays the role" of Eden's Serpent in that he offered man what man thought was the "food of death." Ningishzida was not a successful tempter as Adapa refused to disobey his god's warning and did not eat.
Ningishzida in art and myth is an ushumgal, a serpent-dragon with four legs and also at other times a human-being with serpent-dragon heads erupting from his shoulders as in the below images.
Like Satan in the New Testament Book of Revelation (Rev 20:1-3) Ningishzida can assume at will the form a serpent or snake, a dragon, and a human being.
Sourced from U Penn, Oxford U and many Scholars of Near Eastern Religions
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