Gilgamesh Vs Noah

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“I am about to bring the Flood waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh under the sky in which there is breath of life; everything on earth shall perish.” (“Noah and the Flood” 171). This quote is from the story “Noah and the Flood”, where God is angry with how the earth is becoming so he destroys it with a great flood. However, he spared one man, Noah, and his family. Similarly, there is a story from “The Epic of Gilgamesh” in which Enlil, one of the numerous gods, gets annoyed and destroys the earth with a flood. One of the other gods, though, chooses to save Utnapishtim and his friends and family. “Noah and the Flood” and “The Epic of Gilgamesh” have many similarities and differences with how the floods impacted the planet. The similarities …show more content…
In each story the gods had intentions on wiping out all life on earth, however their reasonings differed. God, the god in “Noah and the Flood”, felt the earth was heading towards the wrong direction. “The earth became corrupt before God; the earth was filled with lawlessness” (“Noah and the Flood” 171). God did not like how the people were behaving on his planet, deeming them unfit to live on the earth anymore. Enlil, one of the gods in “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, however had different reasoning for wanting the end of humanity. “The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by the reason of the babel” (“The Epic of Gilgamesh” 146). Enlil was enraged by humanity and found them far too annoying to keep on the earth. Enlil was not the only god, however. Another god, Ea, decided he still wanted Utnapishtim to live, so he decides to warn him of the flood. “Enlil did this, but Ea because of his oath warned me in a dream” (“The Epic of Gilgamesh” 146). Ea did this by warning Utnapishtim in his dream, giving directions to tear down his house and then to proceed to build a boat out of it using measurements left by the tree. Similarly, Noah was also told to build a boat and given measurements, but how God told him was not mentioned. Also, God was more specific with Noah about the type of wood and where the wood will be used. The events leading up to the flood had both similarities and differences, as does the events during the
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