Comparing Noah's Ark And Gilgamesh
Many comparisons come from the Old Testament in the story of Noah’s Ark, both the Bibical religon and The Samerion religon delt with a great flood. In both stories that the “sins” of man have angered their gods and so the gods will punish the human race. They both had warning this was going to happen, alon with specific instructions on how to spare themselves along with carrying out the certain wishes of the gods. Noah had instrucions, as Gilgamish did. Noahs instructions were “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou salt make it of: The length of the ark should be three hndred cubits, the breadh of it fifty cubits and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thouh finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the inside therof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.” Genesis 14-16. (6) Gilgamesh was instructed: “O man of shuruppak, son of Ubartutu: Tear down the house and build a boat! The boat which you are to build, its dimensions must measure equal to each other: its length must correspond to its width. Roof it over like the Apsu.” Tablet XI 24 and 28-30. They both followed the rules just as they were told, didn’t leave one detail out. It is obvious they
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The Epic of Gilgamesh had one of three Akkadian flood myths. The Sumerians also created their own story of a flood; where the biblical flood story, found in Genesis 9, has a lot of similarities. They are similar because they both had a global floodsent by god or gods which was done to control people. The gods contacted the hero and told him to build the ark. Both Arks were very large and contained different types of aminals. In the end the hero of course got too choose how it ended by releasing the animals, and the the hero sacrifsed the gods, who blessed
The Epic of Gilgamesh had one of three Akkadian flood myths. The Sumerians also created their own story of a flood; where the biblical flood story, found in Genesis 9, has a lot of similarities. They are similar because they both had a global floodsent by god or gods which was done to control people. The gods contacted the hero and told him to build the ark. Both Arks were very large and contained different types of aminals. In the end the hero of course got too choose how it ended by releasing the animals, and the the hero sacrifsed the gods, who blessed