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Same skeleton with no shared geography: humanity's crime is an affront to the senior god's comfort or dignity, a council formalizes extermination, the killing is halted mid-course by subversion within the pantheon itself, a remnant survives, and the wearied god afterward binds or removes himself. Egypt's instrument is a literal flood · of liquid disguised as blood · poured over the fields.
The indictment is comfort, not sin: 'The noise of mankind has become too much, I am losing sleep over their racket' · Enlil and the council decree extermination by flood. Mid-catastrophe the pantheon breaks: the mother goddess 'watched and wept' over her drowned people, and after the abortive annihilation the gods settle for population limits instead.
set against Book of the Heavenly Cow, tomb of…
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