The name of this workbook that these text summaries are from is called Envisioning World Civilizations. The book includes many documents with many different viewpoints. All of the documents from this assignment are related because they all deal with creation in some form or another. Comparing these documents can help give us different creation examples from different time periods as well as different religious viewpoints.
In this chapter of The Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu tells Gilgamesh of the nightmares he has. In his first nightmare the gods were angry with him and Gilgamesh. The gods wanted to punish them for killing Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven. Enkidu is the one that must be punished and his punishment is death. Soon after the dreams start, Enkidu becomes ill. Gilgamesh is so upset that he tries to plead with the gods to let Enkidu live. One morning Enkidu tells Gilgamesh about another dream he had where he was alone and it was dark and a …show more content…
Ut-napishtim says he was king of Shuruppak. When the gods met in a council meeting and Enlil, the god of earth, wind, and air ordered a flood to destroy everything. Ea told Ut-napishtim of the flood and told him to build a boat and to fill with his family along with the seed of every living thing. When the storm came the gods hid in the sky. When the storm was over the gods came down and when Enlil saw the boat he was furious because the storm was supposed to destroy everything. Ea said that Enlil should not have created the storm and if he wanted to punish someone he should have done it in a way that did not punish everyone else too. Enlil then took Ut-napishtim and his wife and touched them, turning them into gods, and because they saved humanity he gave them eternal life. After he finishes telling Gilgamesh the story, Ut-napishtim asks him if he really thinks he is worthy of becoming a god and having eternal
In this chapter of The Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu tells Gilgamesh of the nightmares he has. In his first nightmare the gods were angry with him and Gilgamesh. The gods wanted to punish them for killing Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven. Enkidu is the one that must be punished and his punishment is death. Soon after the dreams start, Enkidu becomes ill. Gilgamesh is so upset that he tries to plead with the gods to let Enkidu live. One morning Enkidu tells Gilgamesh about another dream he had where he was alone and it was dark and a …show more content…
Ut-napishtim says he was king of Shuruppak. When the gods met in a council meeting and Enlil, the god of earth, wind, and air ordered a flood to destroy everything. Ea told Ut-napishtim of the flood and told him to build a boat and to fill with his family along with the seed of every living thing. When the storm came the gods hid in the sky. When the storm was over the gods came down and when Enlil saw the boat he was furious because the storm was supposed to destroy everything. Ea said that Enlil should not have created the storm and if he wanted to punish someone he should have done it in a way that did not punish everyone else too. Enlil then took Ut-napishtim and his wife and touched them, turning them into gods, and because they saved humanity he gave them eternal life. After he finishes telling Gilgamesh the story, Ut-napishtim asks him if he really thinks he is worthy of becoming a god and having eternal