Atra-Hasis

One major similarity is that The Atra-Hasis and Epic of Gilgamesh are both polytheistic stories that have similar gods such as Enlil. Similarly, there is also a major flood that is created by the gods to wipe out mankind for their raucous. Some gods, nevertheless, are kinder than others. In both texts, a god decides to tell the king of the story about the flood. These gods warn them and convince them to build a boat out of a building such as a house or a temple. In the end, both kings within The Atra-Hasis and Epic of Gilgamesh survive the flood. Likewise, in the latter part of the story, the gods of both texts feel guilt and regret for their actions, and therefore, agree to not cause harm to humanity again. Both passages contain multiple similarities, yet they have multiple difference with the passage, Noah and the…

The epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis each show different views from the Story of the Flood. Each gives background on different time periods and by different parts of the world. One telling of Gilgamesh seeking answers from Utnapishtim on how to live forever to avoid the suffering from death, and Noah a man chosen by God to save his family and animals from the cleaning of the world floods. By showing the difference and similarities of both stories we can not only understand more of storytelling of…

Javier Romero Dr. Felipe English Comp 3 August 13, 2015 The Epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh shows realities between the unruly natural world and civilized Mesopotamia. This epic is the journey of a warrior, Gilgamesh, filled with great hubris, as he searches for the key to immortality. Gilgamesh is the king of Uruk but is seen more like a overpowering tyrant than a kind leader to his people. The gods send a wild man, Enkidu, as a buffer to Gilgamesh’s hubris. When Enkidu dies he is…

1) The two chronicles of the flood, Ovids metamorphoses and the Old Testaments told in similar form and they were in many ways similar and had several things in common. In both chronicles the gods believed that the world obtained to much violence, God said to noah that "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” so in both stories the gods decided to flood the world and rid it of all man kind…

The two stories are the 12 Labors of Herakles and the Epic of Gilgamesh. The myths are very similar in the aspect that both are stories of heroes, that have large holes in their characters. They each have multiple journeys and battles within their myths and can be seen going through the hero’s journey. A main difference is that at the end of the myths it seems as if as if Gilgamesh has learned from his myth at the end, while Herakles does not seem to change as much. The 12 Labors of Herakles…

Topoi of revealed secrets occur in over twenty-five ANE sources, ranging from Sumer, Babylon, and Persia in the east to Egypt and Greece in the west. In the following subsection is three positive-revelation sources possibly holding a parent-child relationship with Second Temple writings. The second subsection contains two for negative revelation. The three most likely sources for parent-child relationships are (1) the Ascent of Enmeduranki, (2) the Assyrian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and…

Noah and Gilgamesh Comparison Essay The Book of Genesis and the Epic of Gilgamesh both show many similarities and differences with their own flood story. Noah is the main character in the Flood in the Book of Genesis and Utnapishtim was the main character in Gilgamesh. Both stories tell about a global flood that wiped everything on earth except them and their families with pairs of animals. The first relation between the stories is both of their gods told them to build an ark. They both…

The similarities and differences of Gilgamesh and Noah These two stories have a shared plot and conclusion, but like most stories of "similar" descent, they too have their differences. The stories begin with characters who can be considered the apprentices of their gods, who respected and carried out the word that was spoken to them. The first difference we start with is acknowledging how the protaginist in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim, was a king (a sugar daddy, if you will) while Noah…

The floods in the Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis both have similarities, but they both also have their differences. Genesis is a story that is in the Old Testament that gives background information on Noah’s Ark and how a flood occurs and how it is all resolved. In The Epic of Gilgamesh a flood also occurs but the outcome of Utnapishtim, the main character that survived this flood, is different than the outcome that Noah had in the story of Genesis. One of the two heroes that survived their…

Gilgamesh and The Acceptance of Death “Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?” —Epicurus The Epic of Gilgamesh speaks to the human fear of death and the death of the people who they love and care for. It answers to the existential question of what comes with death and what of the life and connections that have been made during our time one Earth. The character Gilgamesh goes through different stages while…