Comparing Noah's Ark And The Epic Of Gilgamesh

In the story of Noah’s Ark, God’s wrath towards humans and his regret of bringing wrath upon them is depicted. In the story God reinstates the fact that he has made man mortal and that they will die, but then he begins to regret his decision to even create mankind. God sees the in every human’s heart there are only evil intentions and because of this he decides to bring a massive flood to wipe out all the living beings on earth. In the Epic of Gilgamesh the gods are all upset about the fact that the mortals have forgotten them. Humans are not taking time to worship them, but instead causing so much clamor that the gods cannot sleep. One God, named Enlil, takes his anger too far and decides with some of the other gods to bring a flood upon mankind.
God is annoyed and enraged in Noah’s Ark story and in The Epic of Gilgamesh, some of the gods are not that upset about mankind’s actions. In both flood myths, God is regretful, and also wants mankind to flourish, but in addition God agrees that the flood should serve as a reminder to the people to remember who put them in this world.
Noah is a righteous and humble man, so God decides to let him, his wife, his sons and their wives survive the flood. He commands Noah to build a ship, giving him exact measurements of how big the ship should be …show more content…
In the Epic of Gilgamesh a god named Ishtar, who is introduced as the “queen of heaven” cries for mercy on the humans and finds Enlil’s actions to be too cruel. On the seventh day when the storm cleared up Enlil was proud of his actions and boasted that no one could have possibly escaped his wrath. This is when the god of canals, Ninurta, reveals that Ea helped one man and his wife escape the calamity. Enlil is scolded by Ea for lashing out on humans in such an extreme

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