What Role Does Nature Play In The Flood

What is The Great Flood? Throughout history, there have always been works of literature explaining a flood that had taken place, causing the human population to almost be extinct. Genesis and The Epic of Gilgamesh, both containing this very significant and important flood, have many similarities and differences showing their parallels, which include how they were ordered to save the human population, the differences and similarities in the test to find land, and facts about why and how long it lasts. All of these things began to prove the significant parallels within the two well-known works of literature.

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 two flood myths, The Voice, The Flood, and The Turtle, and Genesis follow a similar story line as they attempt to depict the punishment placed upon humans for their misconduct on Earth. The myth tells the tale of how a certain figures suffer the consequences of their actions. These flood myths present the idea of a select group people receive a warning from a higher being telling them to construct a form of shelter that will protect them from a flood that will be used to wipe out the people, or monsters, that are behaving poorly.

In the Bible the reason God sent the flood was because he saw that there was a lot of sinful things in the world and he was upset. He saw that Noah and his family were the only ones that stayed true to want God wanted in his people. In the Epic of Gilgamesh the Gods and Goddesses saw that the people in the earth were evil and they decided that they wanted to completely restart the world and kill every human and animal. Ea went against the other Gods and told Utnapishtim in a dream to build a boat because he saw something in Utnapishim that was not in other people. In the Navajo flood story the Gods did not send the flood to kill the people or to restart the world. The flood happened in this story because the coyote stole the sea monsters baby, and the sea monster wanted his baby

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

Legends of a great flood exist in the records of many cultures: the Middle East, Asia, South America. One Babylonian document in particular, “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” parallels the story of Noah and the flood. The Bible presents the flood as an act of God against rebellious people, not merely an accident of geography or climate. The churning waters described stand as a

Each translation of the flood is very much different. In the Anthology, it is not as straightforward about the flood happening. “ Upon you he shall shower down in abundance, he shall pour upon you a harvest of riches” (Foster, 144) , where one would have to read more to realize there is a flood about to happen, whereas in N.K. Sanders translation, it deliberately states “So the gods agree to exterminate mankind” (Sanders, 20) , which is more blunt about the extermination of mankind or the flood. The Anthology hints toward it by using words such as: pour, shower, and harvest, but it is not as deliberately obvious as Sanders translation. Also in the Epic where it talks about the building of the boat, Sanders version says “ Tear down your house, I say, and build a boat” , which obviously tells

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