Gilgamesh Major Flood Essay

In historic Southwest of Asia history there were two different stories about a major flood. One story comes from the Mesopotamia Gilgamesh and the other from the Hebrew genesis which the stories had similarities and differences as well. Around 2000 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia there was a man named Gilgamesh king of Uruk, child of the Priest King Lugalbanda and his mother of goddess Ninsun. Gilgamesh was a demi-god two thirds god and one third man. The gods saw Gilgamesh as a horrible person, so the gods decide to send down a wild man named Enkidu to keep Gilgamesh in check. At first Gilgamesh and Enkidu fight and later saw their will be no winner and soon became best friends. When Gilgamesh great friend Enkidu died Gilgamesh feared death. Gilgamesh immediately went to find a man named Utnapishtim. Utnapishtim is a legend who survived a great flood and received eternal life. Gilgamesh found Utnapishtim and Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh about the great flood. The story of the flood began that the gods wanted to create a giant flood which would destroy all the people because the sins of man. There was one …show more content…
One evdidence shown was the layers of land underneath southwest Asia and there were hidden caves and with certain markings on the walls. Antoher piece of evidence they found out whenit rains in southwest asia for more than a couple days snow of the mountains come down and fall into the ocean increasing the oceans elevation, so if it rained for 40 days straight like the Genesis talked about you could see how there was a flood. The last piece of evidence they found was recoding of heavy storms and rains where mesoptomia was located and in one of the earliest recording found was the ocean had risen 21 meaters high above land and when the water would retract back to the ocean it would take about a foot to a yard of land away. these storms have been considered very