Comparative analysis of Global Flood Stories

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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL FLOOD STORIES A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL FLOOD STORIES After completing all of the required readings about the two great floods, I believe that the authors were trying to inform future generations about the travesties that occurred during a real life global flood. Both stories are oral myths of each culture’s interpretation of how and why the flood happened, including the way it did and what was learned from the experience. History means different things to different people as seen in the following paragraphs, which describes two separate flood myths, as told by two separate cultures - the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Noahdic Flood. I think that these events truly happened, through reading both primary and secondary sources, and that the ancient peoples used myth stories instead of written books to tell their tales. The Epic of Gilgamesh The First flood story comes from ancient Mesopotamia and is told by the king of Uruk, Gilgamesh, hence the name The Epic of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh thought highly of himself because he was two thirds god, and one third human. Gilgamesh was a ruthless leader and treated everyone poorly. Always thinking of himself before anyone else. The gods, angry at Gilgamesh’s conceit and the way Gilgamesh is ruling his people, decide to even the score with Gilgamesh and create another human being who they call Enkidu. Enkidu is a savage man and lives in the wild with the animals. The Beautiful seductive goddess Ishtar entices Enkidu to leave his wild habitat by using her harem of temptresses to seduce Enkidu who falls prey to their advances. Enkidu and Gilgamesh, the so-called civilized and so-called primitive men respectively, meet and instantaneously quarrel with each other. Gilgamesh wins the fight and Enkidu submits to Gilgamesh’s superiority. They immediately

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