The flood story begins in a time before humans existed. The universe happens to be split between three gods,excluding one other lower class of gods who worked tirelessly to provide for the higher gods. As they multiplied they got louder and louder. One of the gods named Enil, who was in charge of the Earth wanted to be rid of the noise made by the lower gods. So he hatched several plans to get rid of the lower deities,which ended up being foiled by a wise lower deity named Atra - Hasis. In desperation Enil decided to flood the Earth and swore the other higher gods to secrecy. Enki the smartest of the higher gods delivers the message to Atra - Hasis while technically not breaking his promise. He.delivered the message to Atra - Hasis' walls of