Gilgamış Destanı: Tufan ve Ölümsüzlük

When the first flush of dawn appeared, there came up from the horizon a black cloud. Adad thundered within it, while Nebo and Sharru went before. They go as messengers over mountain and valley. Nergal tore away the foundations. Ninib advances, the storm he makes to descend. The Anunnaki lifted up their torches, with their brightness they light up the land. Adad's storm reached unto heaven. All light was turned into darkness. One day the deluge raged high, the waters covered the mountains, like a besom of destruction they brought it upon men. No man beheld his fellow, no more were men recognized in heaven. The gods feared the deluge, they drew back, they climbed up to the heaven of Anu. The gods crouched like a dog, they cowered by the walls. Ishtar cried like a woman in travail, loudly cried the queen of the gods with her beautiful voice: "The former time is turned into clay, since I commanded evil in the assembly of the gods. For the destruction of my people I commanded battle. I alone bore my people, and now like the spawn of fish they fill the sea." Six days and six nights blew the wind, the deluge and the tempest overwhelmed the land. When the seventh day drew nigh, the tempest spent itself in the battle which it had fought. Then rested the sea, the storm fell asleep, the flood ceased. I looked upon the sea, there was silence come, and all mankind was turned to clay.