entities: ENT_MES_UTNAPISHTIM

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use category to filter by functional type (146 values: Underworld Deity, Hero, Adversarial Being, Revealer Figure, etc.). Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_MES_UTNAPISHTIM Utnapishtim   Mesopotamian Flood survivor / Immortal mortal Hero flood survivor; immortality; secret of eternal life; Dilmun; Gilgamesh quest       A           The Mesopotamian flood hero; warned by Ea/Enki to build a boat and save his family and the seed of all living things before the gods sent the flood; after the flood, granted immortality by the gods and placed "at the mouth of the rivers" (a paradise at the edge of the world); Gilgamesh travels to him seeking the secret of immortality; he reveals the flood narrative (Tablet XI) and directs Gilgamesh to the plant of immortality (which Gilgamesh then loses); also called Ziusudra (Sumerian version of the flood story) and Atrahasis (from the Atrahasis Epic, c. 1700 BCE); the direct precursor to the biblical Noah hero

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