Comparing The Sumian Gods In The Epic Of Gilgamesh

Many a person has spent time trying to think about the creation of the world. Whether they deemed it was caused by something only science can describe, the world of a holier being, or perhaps the mixture of the two, there has always been this fascination of what had created us. This has lead to some interesting reasoning where most people define creation in many different religious beliefs. They believe that it was through someone, or something, that humanity was all created. All of these religion show some remarkably similar ideas of the past that mirrors other religion’s ideas. However, their divinities did not act as similar. A perfect example of this would be the very similar flood story that contained the Sumian gods in The Epic of Gilgamesh …show more content…
First, there is the gods show in the story The Epic of Gilgamesh- an epic about a demigod named Gilgamesh. These gods that came from the religion found in the distant Sumeria. In this group of gods there includes the god of the heavens, or the king of the gods, Anu and under him there was Ea, Enlil, Ninhursag, Enki, Ereshkigal, Inanna, Nammu, Ninhursag, Nanna, Ningal, Ninlil, Ninurta, Shuruppak, and Utu who all commanded their own elements. Sadly, the amount of knowledge on the Sumerian Culture is lacking and there is not proficient enough resources to tell about their history completely, but we do know that the scroll containing the story was found in a library of an old king found in Mesopotamia. However, I can provide more information on the Christian God. This god, Himself, features in several different religions. His story started in the Jewish religion and has transferred into the other several different Christian religions. His word, as it is called, is proclaimed in stories of how He created the world and what all the people went through in it. They can be found in the writings of the Tanakh, or the Old Testament of the Christian