Crossword-Solution: ADAPA 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

There too we may provisionally seek {'Aloros}, the "first king", whose equation with Aruru, the Babylonian mother-goddess, never appeared a very happy suggestion.(1) The ingenious proposal,(2) on the other hand, that his successor, {'Alaparos}, represents a miscopied {'Adaparos}, a Greek rendering of the name of Adapa, may still hold good in view of Etana's presence in the Sumerian dynastic record.

One of them was the legend of Adapa, in which we noted just now a distant resemblance to the Hebrew story of Paradise.

The feudal gods: several among them unite to govern the world; the two triads of Eridu--The supreme triad: Anu the heaven; Bel the earth and his fusion with the Babylonian Merodach; Ea, the god of the waters--The second triad: Sin the moon and Shamash the sun; substitution of Bamman for Ishtar in this triad; the winds and the legend of Adapa, the attributes of Ramman--The addition of goddesses to these two triads; the insignificant position which they occupy.

Shutu, the south wind, one day beheld Adapa, one of the numerous offspring of Ea, fishing in order to provide food for his family.

When, therefore, Shutu, falling upon him unexpectedly, had overthrown him, his anger knew no bounds: “‘Shutu, thou hast overwhelmed me with thy hatred, great as it is,--I will break thy wings! ‘Having thus spoken with his mouth unto Shutu, Adapa broke his wings.