The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
NOAH ate The APPLE;
EVE NOT TO BLAME
r.RLET FOUR THOUSAND YEARS
OLD IN A MUSEUM INDI-
GATES ADAM ALVO.
Drink WAS HIS BESETTING SIN

scientist Assumes to Tell Us All
About Stirring History of First
Days of Man, and His Fall From
state of Innocence.
Eve did not eat the apple She did
not give Adam any, to eat and thus
nring about the fall of man from a
tote q Innocence. 1t was Noah who
fall He was ordered not to eat of
+be cassia tree in the Garden of Para
d;sa but he did, and then the curse
came upon him The curse was that
no should have i'll health and an early
daath instead of living to be $4,000
wears old, like his ancestors These
statements are according to the Su-
merriam theology and are found in a
+ab1et written before the days of
Abraham. The tablet is now in the
University Museum, Philadelphia,
saws the New York Sun.
4 hint of this was given more than
q wear ago when DR.. Steven Langdon,
professor of Assyriology at Oxford,
announced that he had translated
mart of tablet which he had cop
led while in the University Museum.
Since then he has compared the tab
LET with every other known tablet and
historical account, including the Book
of Genesis. DR.. Langdon says this
tablet is at least a thousand years old
or than the Genesis account.
It was written more than 1000
years ago and evidently records a ira
dition which goes back to the early
history of man. The Babylonian and
Sumerian accounts place the flood at
something like $4,000 B. c. and the
1apse of time between the creation
and the flood is filled by ten kings
who reigned together $4,000 years,
an average of 43,2O0 years each.
Narrative Is Written as Hymn.
The tablet is nearly complete and
its story is in the form of a hymn,
in much the same style as the He
brew poetry of the Bible Enki, the
water god, and his consort, Ninella,
ruled over mankind in Paradise, here
called Dalmun, on the east coast of
the Arabian gulf, about a hundred
miles from the mouth of the Tigris-
Euphrates system.
For some reason, however, man
displeased the gods. Apparently he
did not worship them with sufficient
fervor. Now it was Nintu, a god
dess, who created men out of clay.
She distinctly said they were her ere
atoms. She could not save all men,
but by craft managed to save the
king, who is here called Tagtug,
which is variously rendered Ziugidd l
and Utnaplsltim, ana is an equiya-
lent, according to to DR.. Langdon, OF
the Sumehian Nuuh, which is none
other than Noah. So a ship was pre-
pared for the king and his compan-
luis. Inc uOOu ldSl6u nine AhOhIho
and man dissolved in the waters like
talIow and fat"
After the flood Nintu introduced
Tagtug, or Noah, to the god Enki,
explained how she saved him and GER
tain pious ones, and Enki took him
to the temple and revealed secrets.
TagtUg became a gardener and was
instructed in plant life by Nintu, but
was ordered not to eat of the caSsia.
But Tagtug, or Noah, disobeyed. He
ate of the cassia, whereupon Nintu
afflicted him with bodily weakness.
All his descendants died compare
lively early deaths. According to the
tablets in the University Museum de-
clphered by DR.. Poebel, only a few
OF this Tagtug's successors ruled
more than a normal number of years.
Divine Beings Taught Noah.
In the biblical narrative Noah
sinned by getting drunk. The gods
sent eight divine patrons to teach
me the arts of wisdom. There are
ten such patrons mentioned in Gen