The Epic of Gilgamesh Flood story and the Flood story found in Genesis 6-9 have a significant amount of similarities and differences. As you read them both you will slowly grasp the differences and seek out the similarities. They both may be told in different times but they show the exact same event that happened but in a different amount of time and with different characters. As you read each version of the flood, the first difference i noticed was that in both a specific thing angers the gods. In Gilgamesh the gods are angered because mankind is to noisy. This makes them want to destroy mankind. This is shown on page 23 when they say “ In those days the world teemed, the people multiplied, the world bellowed like a wild bull, and the great