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Babyloniaca, flood fragment

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In both, the flood is FORESEEN and the total record is deliberately buried in advance of it · a planned deposit with planned retrieval, not accidental survival. Same three-beat structure: warning, interment underground, post-diluvian recovery for mankind. Raw material for the Custodian doctrine: someone was told, and someone prepared.

Kronos gives advance notice of the flood 'in a vision' and commands Xisuthrus to write 'a history of the beginning, progress, and final conclusion of all things' and 'bury these accounts securely in the city of the Sun at Sippara'; after the flood a voice orders survivors to dig the writings up and make them 'known to all mankind.'

set against Res Gestae 22.15.30

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