Around 4,000 B.C.E. there were a group of people who came to Mesopotamia, which is now modern day Iraq, and settled. These people were known as the Sumerians. After lots of hard work in Mesopotamia the Sumerians started the growth of a city state. “While the area between the Tigris and Euphrates became known as the Fertile Crescent for its high agricultural productivity, high temperatures, and unpredictable floods the Sumerians were constantly challenged”(Spodek,47). Since floods occurred occasionally, the Sumerians had to take matters into their own hands to construct canals and irrigation ditches. They not only became the dominant power in southern Mesopotamia but they also invented writing. Around 3300 B.C.E. is when the writing first
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They are powerful because of the ways they interfere with the life of Gilgamesh. For example, Aruru sends Endiku for Gilgamesh to help and guide him and Shamash helps Endiku and Gilgamesh defeat, Humbaba, the monster of the forest. The gods and goddesses are also very human like because they have moods and personalities just as we do. In the Epic of Gilgamesh there was a flood story. This story was told my Utnapishtim. Gilgamesh wants to know how he was granted eternal life so Utnapishtim tells him the story. He tells how the gods and goddesses met in secret to cause a flood that would kill all of mankind. It was the God Enlil’s idea but Utnapishtim felt that not all of mankind deserved to die so Enlil granted both Utnapishtim and his wife eternal life. The flood story seems to be a story that appears in not only the Epic of Gilgamesh but in other stories or epics in a different way. The actual historical occurrence that is the basis for the epic’s flood story is a story that is in the bible known as Noah’s Ark and the Flood Story. During the story God told Noah to build an ark. The rain then poured for a numerous amount of days and the entire world was flooded and mankind was wiped out. Noah and his family survived the horrible flood and god promised to never destroy all living creatures
They are powerful because of the ways they interfere with the life of Gilgamesh. For example, Aruru sends Endiku for Gilgamesh to help and guide him and Shamash helps Endiku and Gilgamesh defeat, Humbaba, the monster of the forest. The gods and goddesses are also very human like because they have moods and personalities just as we do. In the Epic of Gilgamesh there was a flood story. This story was told my Utnapishtim. Gilgamesh wants to know how he was granted eternal life so Utnapishtim tells him the story. He tells how the gods and goddesses met in secret to cause a flood that would kill all of mankind. It was the God Enlil’s idea but Utnapishtim felt that not all of mankind deserved to die so Enlil granted both Utnapishtim and his wife eternal life. The flood story seems to be a story that appears in not only the Epic of Gilgamesh but in other stories or epics in a different way. The actual historical occurrence that is the basis for the epic’s flood story is a story that is in the bible known as Noah’s Ark and the Flood Story. During the story God told Noah to build an ark. The rain then poured for a numerous amount of days and the entire world was flooded and mankind was wiped out. Noah and his family survived the horrible flood and god promised to never destroy all living creatures