(Gn 6:14-19) For 40 days it rains; a great flood covers the earth and “everything that moved on earth perished” except for Noah and everyone with him on the ark. (Gn 7:23) After the waters recede Noah builds an altar and sacrifices burnt offerings to the God of Israel, who smells the pleasing aroma of the sacrifices and vows to Noah and his family “never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done”. (Gn 8:20-21) The God of Israel uses the rainbow as a sign of this covenant never again to destroy the earth by flood. (Gn 9:12-16) He tells Noah to subdue the land and “be fruitful and multiply”. (Gn 8:16-17) Noah plants a vineyard and becomes drunk.
In “The World on the Turtles Back” the woman is seen as a pain to man while she was pregnant and so she was pushed by him from a hole in the Sky-World and would have drowned in the water, but was saved by animals. In “Genesis” the whole world is flooded, but Noah and his family are saved when God tells them to build an arc before he started the flood. “The Metamorphoses” portrays this when Jove decides that he needs to punish man for being evil. Jove also decides to use water as a punishment in the form of a flood. Through this two people who were the best of the humans
The Boys in the Boat The boys in the boat is a book written by Daniel James Brown about a group of boys who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and their journey to get there. The book largely details the upbringing of Joe Rantz and the struggles he faced due to his family life at a very early age and how he overcame the situations he was forced into. After his mother died when he was four years old his father remarried and began a new family, after a few years of somewhat harmony Joe’s new stepmother began to resent him to no fault of his own. He was abandoned at the age of fourteen, by his father and his new family, to fend for himself during the Great Depression. Joe would find any work available to support himself, he would take care of the chickens and the garden to ensure he had enough food to survive or he would forage for food, whether it be other peoples food scraps, he never let anything go to waste “no matter how odd, or worthless it might at first appear.” His older brother asked him to move to Seattle to finish his senior year of high school and while there he was approached by the head coach at the University of Washington’s rowing team to try out for the team, as he had the body type, from chopping wood from a young age for work, that the coach was looking for.
Both stories are very similar. The extent of the flood was global in both stories. The floods were caused by man’s sins and wickedness. They were intended for all mankind. The flood was sent by God in Genesis, and by a group of Gods in Gilgamesh.
God’s rule obligated himself to Abram while assigning him a task: Abram was to leave his father’s house in Ur, a city of the Chaldeans and his father’s birthplace, and Yahweh would show him where to go. The promise included: a land; a blessing of fruitfulness and dominion; a great name; mercy along with all those who bless him and those who disdain him will be judged; this shows God’s absolute power over human history. Eventually Abraham had Isaac and Isaac had Jacob and then Jacob had 12 sons and his favorite son was Joseph. He gave him the coat of many colors and then shortly after that Joseph had two dreams that he shared with his brothers. Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery and Joseph through a
· the plant has poison on it so scavengers do not eat it. 2 examples of scavengers · the ducks scavenge for bugs in the lake. · the flys scavenge for food or animal waste. Example of a Plant Reproduction · The plant has seeds that fall out and start to grow other plants. Example of symbiosis the fly and duck: the ducks eats the fly and gets energy.
Ever wondered why animals can’t talk but humans can? Well it all started back 500 Million years ago when everything was calm and the world was in formation, there was a King by the name Zaio Herzich. Zaio was appointed King after his father Uranus and his mother Gaea passed away, he was young but wise and did everything he could to develop our world. Being the only God, Zaio had brought out women (Eua) from his own mouth so that he wouldn’t be lonely and he would have someone to appoint him in case of his death, also Zaio needed someone or something to do work and to serve him so he created Animals which were dogs and cats. These servants could talk and had human like characteristics they could talk, stand, etc.
Birds were released to test for whether or not the waters had receded. In the Genesis account, a raven and a dove were released. In the Gilgamesh account, a dove, swallow, and raven were released. Once out of the boat, the man offers a sacrifice to the divinity which brings comfort to the divinity at the sweet scent of the sacrifice. Now for the differences: The Gilgamesh tale never says why the gods chose to save the man in the story.
I am very grateful to have discovered the thoroughly researched paper, The True Story Behind “The Aquarian Gospel” from which I feel it is necessary to paraphrase in the next few paragraphs. Levi was the son of a Church of Christ minister who followed in his father’s footsteps. During the Civil War he was a chaplain with the commission of Captain whose regiment lost no men save those who died from smallpox. It was just after this that Levi Dowling lost both his wife Sylvia and only new-born son. The war and this terrible tragedy must have had profound effect on Levi.
But there were also some similarities, such as that the flood occurred in every story. In all four stories it’s all basically preparation for the flood that the God’s have warned the few people that knew about it to get ready and to build boats. This brings me to the next similarity, in all four stories someone is building a boat or ark to keep mankind alive.