Compare And Contrast The Epic Of Gilgamesh And The Great Flood

Stories of a great flood have circled throughout the world for centuries. These stories are a sort of explanation as to what happened and why it happened. There are many flood stories throughout different cultures, and they all have many similarities. One example is that of The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the story of the great flood in the Hebrew scriptures (christian religion). These two stories are not the only of its kind about a great flood wiping out humanity for a new start though. The book of “Genesis” tells of the Lord coming to Noah and telling him how he is disgraced with mankind, and that he is going to exterminate mankind. He tells this to Noah, then tells him that he wants him to build an ark and take his family with him, along with two of every animal with him. The story in The Epic of Gilgamesh is similar, but also different. The gods, more so Enlil than the others, want to wipe out mankind with a flood simply because they were making too much noise and disruptions to the gods. Ea then warns …show more content…
Whereas, In The Epic of Gilgamesh, The cause was the gods being irritated and not getting sleep; and the survivor only being Utnapishtim and his wife. Also in the story of Genesis, it is God being upset with the corruptness, like in the Incas story. But Genesis also only had noah and his family survive. There is one huge difference that is a very important detail in The Epic of Gilgamesh and in Genesis, there is no ark built to ride out this flood. The farmers reside to a cave very high up with their families. This might have shown how in the Inca’s lived their lives; mostly on land and higher up. This more than likely means that the Inca’s did not have boats or the technology to build them. Maybe they just did not know. Most other Indian and tribal flood myths do not involve a boat or