The Voice, The Flood And The Turtle, And Genesis

There are similarities in the account of the great flood between Utnapishtim’s and the biblical account Genesis 6-9 although, there are crucial differences. The crucial differences in the two-literary works are the supreme beings, their behaviors, their reasonings for the flood, the outcomes from the aftermath of the flood, the blessings they give, and why.

Through reading both stories, it is quite obvious that there are some parallels between the two. The beginning of the new world that Noah lives in directly mirrors the one of the past. In the first verses of Genesis, the week of creation is described with God creating the sea first, and then “God said, ‘Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.’ And it was so.” (Genesis 1:9). This exact same process is repeated when the flood comes, starting with “And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.” (Genesis 7:19). This verse echoes the creation story reiterating that the whole world was covered with water until God decided it was time create land. After God had decided that it was time for the new world to begin the waters receded and left Noah’s ark resting on the top of a Mount Ararat. The familiar accounts, however don't stop there. In the beginning, God speaks to Adam saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” (Genesis 1:28). Theses exact same words are told

In both Gilgamesh and Noah and the Flood, man’s wickedness leads to death, destruction, and rebirth all caused by billions of gallons of water sweeping the earth’s surface. The flood in both stories destroys most of mankind. The floods represent rebirth and a new beginning for mankind, as well as the gods and God’s wrath. In Gilgamesh the gods decide to destroy mankind by flooding the earth for six days and nights. Utnapishtim is chosen to build a boat in order to restart mankind after the flood. In the Bible God also decides to flood the earth due to the increase in wickedness. God chooses Noah to build an ark and store seven pairs of every clean animal and two of every other kind of animal on it

The Hebrew Flood story of Noah and his obligation to preserve man kind after God had punished all living creatures for their inequities parallels The Epic of Gilgamesh in several ways. Even though these two compilations are passed on orally at different times in history the similarities and differences invoke deliberation when these stories are compared. Numerous underlining themes are illustrated throughout each story. Humans are guilty of transgressions and must be punished, God or Gods send a flood as punishment to destroy this evil race, a person is selected by the gods to build a craft that will withstand the flood and allow this person to create a new race. An

The two flood myths mentioned above have a few similarities. The first is that the floods had come from the anger of powerful beings. The first story mentions that the God Jupiter had been angry

To begin with, the main similarity in these stories was the divine creation of the world and of humans. In the Genesis account, God created everything out of nothing, which started with the creation of the heavens and earth (Gen. 1:1 NIV). Succeeding these creations, God continued to add things to the earth, which included day, night, land, water, vegetation, and also living creatures (Gen. 1:3,6,9,11,14,20,26).

Creation myths across cultures have several obvious similarities and differences. There is substantial importance in the larger ideas, such as gender, the role of the human beings, and the outcome of the creation. I find it fascinating that many of the mythical stories from around the world have told a story where a God floods the earth. I think the flood stories in each myth may be a link between them. Creation myths concern our ancestors and gods of nature; the earth, the sky, the sun, the moon, and the stars. They are supernatural explanations of human origin and they help explain what humans could not explain to answers question about the creation of the earth and man that could be passed on for generations. Our culture and history would not be the same without the mythical place that surround the stories of our creation.

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

The story of the great flood is probably the most popular story that has survived for thousands of years and is still being retold today.  It is most commonly related within the context of Judeo-Christian tradition.  In the Holy Bible, the book of Genesis uses the flood as a symbol of God's wrath as well as His hope that the human race can maintain peace and achieve everlasting salvation.  The tale of Noah's Ark begins with God's expression of dismay as to the degenerate state of the human race at the time.  People were behaving wickedly and sinfully and God decided that a genetic cleansing was necessary.  He spared only Noah and his family, along with two of every type of animal; one

There is an infinite amount of ways to compare and contrast these two stories together. In both stories there was a worldwide flood, but they were for different reasons. In “Genesis” the reason for the flood was the chaos and wickedness, but in “The epic of Gilgamesh” the flood was because of sins. The floods for both were different in means of duration because in “Genesis” the flood had lasted forty days and nights, but in “The epic of Gilgamesh” it had only lasted six days and nights. Another similarity about them is after the floods they both had sent out birds to check, but there is the catch. They sent out different birds. In “Genesis” there were three doves and a raven, but in “gilgamesh” there was a dove, swallow, and a raven. Finally, one last thing that is very specifically different about these two stories is that one flooded the whole earth while the other flooded one city, but both also took out mankind. As you can see there are numerous ways to bring these two stories together and ways to differentiate

The book of “Gilgamesh” and “Noah And The Flood” are both epic stories with a different outlook on the flood. The two stories are clashing tales with flood and deals and death. They both have different religions and story lines which leads to the great Floods. Utnapishtim haves many Gods, and Noah haves one God. Utnapishtim gained everlasting life because of the flood. Noah got reward with grace and peace for flood.

To begin with, the main similarity in these stories was the divine creation of the world and of humans. In the Genesis account, God created everything out of nothing, which started with the creation of the heavens and earth (Gen. 1:1 NIV). Succeeding these creations, God continued to add things to the earth, which included day, night, land, water, vegetation, and also living creatures (Gen. 1:3,6,9,11,14,20,26).

The flood occurs in many creation myths such as the Theogony, Genesis, Yoruba Creation, Mayan Creation, and Popol Vhu. With the floods which occur, there are only a few survivors and the survivors build a boat. In Popol Vhu, the flood occurs to wipe out all of the incompetent people who were created to worship the gods and were notweren’t properly doing so; the incompetent people then become monkeys so the new people see what they should notshouldn’t be like. In the Yoruba creation, there is a flood caused by Olokun because he was not included in the process of humans and actually didn’t know the humans were being created; he then wiped these humans out with the

Looking at the two different accounts of a flood from The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis that they share a key distinction in both pieces of literature. They both received a blessing from listening to the higher divine power and building an ark for a flood.

To me, the similarities between the Greek myth, the Babylonian poem Atrahasis and the Old Testament story about the Noah’s Arc can be explained by the same theory of the speculation of the linguistic similarity. First of all, these three myths accidently mentioned the Flood by chance. One of the conjectures is the myth poets were inspired by an accident, perhaps not as horrible as a flood, happened that time, and overstated the story with different propose such as ecclesiolatry. The second possibility is the Flood myth can be also explained by the borrowing of the story. Since the myths all mentioned gods’ power and control over human, it is mostly likely that churches in these countries plagiarized the idea of the Flood and used it to consolidate