Noah's Ark

Many centuries ago the lush valley of the wetaking tribe was nothing but a barren wasteland where no tree or blade of grass could grow and no water could find its way there. One day the elder of the tribe called to the gods for help. He pleaded for water and life to be brought in flotilla to their homeland. In response the gods issued a challenge: every day every member of the tribe would have to perform ablutions and pray a prayer to a different god every day at sunrise. Then on the tenth day…

and his family survived the flood, he wanted everyone to die. In the biblical version of the deluge, God was not upset that Noah made it through the flood. Unlike Enlil, God wanted Noah and the animals to survive that’s why he told Noah to build an Ark. After, Noah survived the flood God vowed never to flood the Earth again and also gave Noah and his son blessings. In the Sumerian version, Tim was made…

In both stories The Giver by Lois Lowry and The Assignment Rescue by Varian Fry they are extremely similar. On the other hand, both stories have many different things about them. Whether it is about the community or the environment both books have many similarities and difference. Here are some similarities and differences. In the book The Assignment Rescue by Varian Fry there are many things that relate with The Giver. One similarity between the stories is that both Jonas from The Giver, and…

the boat the seed of all living creatures.” In Noah and the Flood, Noah is God’s best man and instructs him to build an ark, “Make yourself an ark of gopher woods; make it an ark with compartments and cover it inside and out with pitch…You shall enter the ark, with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives. And all that lives, of all flesh, you shall take two of each into the ark to keep alive with you.” After the flood goes on for numerous days, the gods give each of the main characters with a…

In the epic of Gilgamesh, water is shown to be an importance through out the story as it is mentioned in tablet XI. In tablet XI, Gilgamesh talks to Utanapishtim on how he was granted immortality by the gods. Utanapishtim tells him about his recap of his life before he became immortal by building a boat that would survive the flood. After Utanapishtim tells Gilgamesh of his life, Gilgamesh continues to go on his journey to become immortal. In the story of Gilgamesh water plays a crucial role in…

The legend I can relate to the most is "The Great Flood". I can relate to it the most because I'm religious and it comes from the Bible, and I also live in a corrupt time period. It is the story of a flood sent by God to wipe all the evil off the earth. He made the chose because he saw how evil and wicked mankind was becoming. He started to regret ever creating them. So, He decided to create a massive flood that would wipe everything off the face of the earth, just so there would be no more…

While reading each myth presented in this class, I’ve noticed clear similarities between all of them. The stories we have read surrounding the Flood all have very similar pattern of events. Aside from this there are still many key details that make each myth unique. Both God and Jupiter share a few similarities. First, both of these Gods regret having humans on Earth and wish to destroy the human race. They are especially angry at humans for their wickedness. Both these gods also decide a flood…

"The Lord then said to Noah, 'Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the…

people on earth with a deluge. The story never gives solid reasoning behind the gods’ decision to send a flood; Uta Napishti is simply given a warning by Ea. Uta Napishti follows Ea’s instructions to build an ark and gather animals and loved ones to bring on board. He then boards everyone onto the ark when Ea tells him that the flood is about to come. To begin the flood, Adad, the storm god, comes over the land accompanied by various other gods and creates a storm that results in the flood of…

Besides the obvious differences between The Epic of Gilgamesh and Star Wars, there are quite a few similarities. Similarities include spiritual training and signs of being special, but there are also more than just those. Three main comparisons between the stories are the weapons and how they are used to achieve goals, battles of good versus evil, and the heroes and their sidekicks. One of the comparisons between The Epic of Gilgamesh and Star Wars is the weapons. There are three main weapons…