Page 110 of 384
Page Content (OCR)
106 Figure 29 a variety of Divine Encounters that enthrall from beginning to end. As a final act of the Deluge drama, according to the Bible, Elohim assured the saved humans that such a calamity shall never occur again; and as a sign, "I placed my bow in the cloud as a token of the covenant between me and the Earth." Though this particular detail does not show up in the extant Mesopotamian versions, the deity who had covenanted with the people was indeed sometimes shown, as in this Mesopota- mian depiction, as a bow-holding god in the clouds (Fig. 29). DIVINE ENCOUNTERS