The Great Flood/Noah’s Ark A flood drowns people and animals, it ruins houses. Floods happen from rain overflowing making a flood. Very few people lived the aftermath, they repopulated the whole world all over again, Noah and his family and the animals on the boat/ark lived the aftermath of The Great flood. The Ark helped them: The ark helped them survive The Great flood by floating. It was started about 3000-3300b.c., the rain lasted nearly six weeks (40 days and nights). The Ark floated above the flood water saving Noah and Noah’s family and 2 of each animal species from drowning in the great flood. Instead they lived, it lasted that long because God created it, it is believed it took 120 years to build Noah’s Ark. when the flood occurred
Comparing the Great Flood in Epic of Gilgamesh and the Biblical story of Noah’s Ark
Both the story of “Noah and the Flood” in the book of Genesis in The Hebrew Bible and the flood story in The Epic of Gilgamesh detail a grand flood in which a man saved life from extinction by building an ark, earning fame and immortality in some form. The theme of completing this grand task for a moral purpose holds true to both stories, but the depiction and actions of the divine and mortal characters in the stories contain different similarities and differences.
In Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim is chosen to survive the great flood because he too is faithful to his lord, God Ea. They each prepare for their journey by building a large boat, and bringing with them two of every animal and their families. Noah’s ark is thirty cubits high, and three stories while Utnapishtim’s boat is two hundred feet tall, with six
Noah and his family entered the ark as God had commanded. After seven days, the waters of the flood were over the earth. All the wellsprings of the great deep burst and the casements of the heavens were opened. (Genesis pg 32) It rained for forty
Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” 22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.” This was God’s command to Noah, unlike Utnapishtim who was told the secret of the flood by one of the gods.
At the time of this story God saw how the thoughts of mankind were evil and he decided to destroy what he had created with a great flood intending to drown the earth. He chose Noah and his family to build an ark big enough to contain two of every animal to repopulate the earth. The world was flooded for a hundred and fifty days until the water subsided back into land.
For both stories a specific person was picked out to survive the flood by building an arc but the Gods went about it in different ways.
This one act included the archetypes of an ark being provided, animals being saved, and animals being saved. In the time of Ogyges, the flood covered the whole world and was so devastating that the country remained without kings until the reign of
God cast Adam and Eve out of garden. The Flood: * God cause rain for first time. * Noah, only good human on earth. * Noah and 3 sons build Ark. *
Ann states the day of the flood it had been raining all afternoon into the middle of the night. As it continued raining the water continued to get higher and higher. She states with the water levels rising, they got up in the middle of the night and went to their neighbor 's house. The neighbor 's house was a two story house and the family felt they would be safer there with the rising waters. Ann says they spent the whole rest of the night at the neighbor 's home as it continued to rain through the night. The next day the water was all the way up not quite to the second story yet.
In each of these stories there was a great flood. In the flood story in the Bible the purpose was to kill all air-breathing animals and all the sinful humans that lived on land. In the Bible Noah was told to build an ark and take his family and two of each animal with him. The flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh had a very similar reason but the Gods were meaning to kill human and animal. Ea tells Utnapishtim to build a boat and take only himself and two of each animal, but he ends up taking his workers, family, and a lot of things that he was not suppose to. In the Navajo flood story the flood was not to kill all of mankind, it was to get the sea monsters baby back. Unlike the first
Gilgamesh had a different way of building his ark he had everyone's help and despite knowing that almost everyone was going to be wiped from existence he threw a party.” He gave the shipwrights wine to drink as though it were river water, raw wine and red wine and oil and white wine. There was feasting then” (The Epic of Gilgamesh pg. ). Noah took the whole thing more serious the Gilgamesh ever did, but he still managed to have the boat done in seven
The flood caused people to starve and to drown. The affects of the flood are similarly described in Genesis: “And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark” ( Genesis 7:23). If it had not had been for the ark, every single leaving thing would have been destroyed like in Ovid. They did
Last time, we learned that after Adam and Eve left Eden, people became increasingly evil until God had to clean up the Earth by washing it with water. Who survived the flood? Noah survived. How did he survive? Noah lived through the flood by building an ark, a really big boat.
Noah and Utnapishtim were both righteous men. They were both told to build a boat and they both complained about it. The flood was a result of man’s wickedness. Utnapishtim said “the world teemed, the people multiplies, the world bellowed like a wild bull, and the great god was aroused by the clamour”. The noise was so harsh that they agreed to “exterminate mankind”. Genesis states that “the earth was filled with violence” and that the world was “corrupt” . So God told Noah that “the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth”. The difference here is the way that the way the gods/Gods got the idea to destroy the Earth. Since man was sinning and making all