The main character of the Biblical flood is a man named Noah. The main character in the flood of the Epic of Gilgamesh is a man named Utnapishtim. Both Noah and Utnapishtim had a personal knowledge of God or the gods. Noah’s God informed him that a flood would soon come to rid the world of the wickedness of humankind. The god Ea revealed to Utnapishtim, by speaking to the walls of his house, that the gods were to rid the earth of all humanity by means of a flood (Gilgamesh, tablet XI).
In both stories the gods or God struck down a flood as a symbol of their anger as well. Lastly, at the end of each story, the once perfect creation became cursed, whether it was with sin, or ignorance. Also there are many differences in Genesis and Popol Vuh. First of all, Genesis is a part of the Bible that explains how God created humans. Also Genesis says that there is only one God who created the earth and humans with words.
With each story, a new tale is unraveled and differences are put aside to reveal an event that was beyond human control. Beginning in both stories, the reader is introduced to the hero that saves all creatures from extinction. These men are ordered by a single god to build an arc, full of the beasts of the land and particular people in which the god wishes to save. These large arcs are build using pitch to keep water from leaking in, and include only one door and one hatch opening. When the arcs are finished, the floods are delivered by rain and wipe out the remaining population of land creatures.
Enili became very angry at the other gods when he saw the boat. Enili asked the other gods if the mortals escaped because no mortals were suppose to have survived the destruction. Ninurta smarted off that Ea did it and he Ea knew everything and makes his own rules. Ea asked Enlil how he could so senselessly bring down the flood. Then he told Enlil that he didn’t tell Utnaplishtim of the flood, he learnt of it in a dream.
Gilgamesh traveled to see this man and hear his story, and it is his story that forms the flood narrative component within the Epic of Gilgamesh. On the surface, the two texts do share numerous similarities, the most obvious of which concerns the fact that both stories feature a catastrophic flood that destroys mankind. In the book of Genesis, God says to Noah, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the Earth” (Genesis, 6:4, pg. 14, verse 7), as well as further saying, “I am going to put an end to all people” (Genesis, 6:4, pg. 14, verse 13).
If they were all powerful gods couldn’t they have somehow blocked out all the sounds of mankind or even send some kind of warning to the people? In the Book of Genesis God decided that mankind was becoming too wicked, and God was sorry he created them. (Gen. 6:6). I thought that God’s reason made more sense to me; he saw his creation become something he had not intended it to be corrupted and full of evil and he could not stand it. In The Epic of Gilgamesh the gods planned to wipe out everyone, but the god Ea decides to warn Utnapishtim because he was a worshiper of him.
He was the supreme deity of Zoroaster's teachings and beliefs who prevented turmoil and conflict from dominating all that was good and preventing evil to proliferate into such a mass that it would envelop everything bringing demise to all that existed. Zoroastrianism is considered a dualistic religion, since it is a whole consisting of two sides which are in a long going dissent. There are many similarities between Christianity and Zoroastrianism that can easily be spotted. Both religions are dualistic. Zoroastrianism was considered a dualistic religion as it had to do with the fight between Spenta Mainyu and Angra Mainyu.
Running head: JESUS' KINGDOM ACTIVITY Jesus' Kingdom Activity Julie C. Moon Grand Canyon University New Testament History BIB 123 Darrin Metz November 08, 2009 Jesus' Kingdom Activity Every birth is miraculous, and every child that is born is a gift from God, but Jesus was God’s only son. He was born to a human, virgin mother yet had a divine Father. Jesus was God in the flesh, the Messiah. His birth was the first of many miracles in Jesus’ life. At the approximate age of thirty, Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.
And He is with you wherever you may be. Allah sees well all that you do" (57:4). Retrieved September 20, 2012 from http://islam.about.com/od/creation/a/creation.htm The Question of Identity The Quran describes how Allah created Adam: “We created man from sounding clay, from mud molded into shape…” (15:26). “He began the creation of man from clay, and made his progeny from a quintessence of fluid: (32:7-8). Thus, human beings have a fundamental attachment to the earth.
Comparison in the Creation of Enkidu in Gilgamesh and Adam in Genesis The Epic of Gilgamesh is said to bear resemblances to the story of creation as accounted in the book of Genesis in the Bible. This is quite an interesting discovery given that the Epic of Gilgamesh predates the Bible by more than 1,000 years. One of the most striking resemblances is that of the creation of Enkidu in the Epic of Gilgamesh and Adam in Genesis. In the Bible, the book of Genesis has an account of how things were created. It started with God creating the heavens and the earth and then the formation of light and darkness.