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95 Figure 23 Beitrage zur Assyriologie—Fig. 23) appears to us the most plausible. It also bears a striking resemblance to a modern submarine, with a conning tower whose hatch is closed tight when diving. No wonder, perhaps, that this specially designed vessel was described in the Babylonian and Assyrian recensions as a tzulili—ma term which even nowadays (in modern Hebrew, Tzolelet) denotes a submersible boat, a submarine. The Sum- erian term for Ziusudra's boat was MA.GUR.GUR, meaning "a boat that can turn and tumble." According to the biblical version it was built of gopher wood and reeds, with only one hatch, and was covered with tar-pitch "within and without." The Hebrew term in Genesis for the complete boat was Teba, which denotes something closed on all sides, a "box" rather than the commonly trans- lated "ark." Stemming from the Akkadian Tebitu, it is con- sidered by some scholars to signify a "goods vessel," a cargo ship. But the term, with a hard "T," means "to sink." The boat was thus a "sinkable" boat, hermetically sealed, so that even if submerged under the tidal wave of the Deluge, it could survive the watery ordeal and resurface. That it was Enki who had designed the boat also makes sense. It will be recalled that his epithet-name before he was given the title EN.KI ("Lord of Earth") was E.A—"He Whose Home/Abode is Water." Indeed, as texts dealing with the earliest times state, Ea liked to sail the Edin's waters, alone or with mariners whose sea songs he liked. Sumerian depictions (Fig. 24a,b) showed him with streams of water— the prototype of Aquarius (which, as a constellation, was the zodiacal House honoring him). In setting up the gold-mining The Deluge