A Tragedy of a Drought

A beautifully written passage captures the worst of the droughts, and this is again the Timothy Stephanie translation. After much suffering, humanity, on gentle Ea's recommendation made many sacrifices to the rain god and the drought ended. And thus began a cycle of droughts and sicknesses, collaborations between Ea and Atrahasis, remittance on punishments and then new punishments. Elil demanded that Ea cause a cataclysmic flood. Hence begins a story that many people know of.