Vigilant Adapa – Adapa from Mesopotamian Mythology
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Vigilant_Adapa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapa
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Vigilant Adapa is a Luphilim and “Protector of the Timeless Tower.”
Vigilant Adapa: “Jehoha’qatan, Wanderers. I do not know what purpose brings you to the Timeless Tower, but by order of Grandmother Raven, entry is restricted.”
Tyrehl: “It’s nice to be greeted in such a civil fashion. We simply wish an audience with the Chronocle, if you can point us in the right direction…”
Vigilant Adapa: “By the Spirals Light! Am I to be tested so soon? My fellow Luphilim have not arrived to establish the trials. I will do my duty, however. You will not gain entry to the Chronocle’s Chamber! I will protect the portal with my life, if I must!”
Adapa was a Mesopotamian mythical figure who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality. The story, commonly known as “Adapa and the Food of Life”, is known from fragmentary tablets from Tell el-Amarna in Egypt (around 14th century BC) and from finds from the Library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria (around 7th century BC). The oldest tradition about him is from Me-Turan/Tell Haddad tablets (around 19-16th century BC), which is written in Sumerian.
The Myth of Adapa is the Mesopotamian story of the Fall of Man in that it explains why human beings are mortal. The god of wisdom, Ea, creates the first man, Adapa, and endows him with great intelligence and wisdom but not with immortality, and when immortality is offered to Adapa by the great god Anu, Ea tricks Adapa into refusing the gift.
When the story of Adapa was first rediscovered, some scholars saw a resemblance with the story of the biblical Adam, such as Albert Tobias Clay. Later scholars such as Alexander Heidel (“The Adapa legend and the Biblical story (of Adam) are fundamentally as far apart as antipodes”) rejected this connection; however, potential connections are still (1981) considered worthy of analysis. Possible parallels and connections include similarity in names, including the possible connection of both to the same word root; both accounts include a test involving the eating of purportedly deadly food; and both are summoned before god to answer for their transgressions.
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