Similarities Between Gilgamesh And The Wooden People

When looking at all of the gods in “The Epic of Gilgamesh” and the Maker, Modeler from “The Wooden People,” there are quite a few differences between them, but they are pretty similar. To start off, in both stories, the deities created human life, and they controlled all of the things that would happen in the world around them. In “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” the gods are looked up to as strong and powerful, and people are completely aware of that. Even Gilgamesh who is only two thirds god is looked at as strong and thought highly of (“Epic” 14). The Maker, Modeler isn’t as lucky to have people who worship him. The Maker, Modeler gets so frustrated with the people made of wood that he kills them off because they don’t worship him (“Popol” 62). In both of the stories, the biggest similarity between them is the lack of respect that they have for the lives that they created. Even though the people worship the gods in “Gilgamesh,” the gods come to the rash decision that all of the people on the earth are too noisy, so instead of respecting them enough to tell them to quiet down, they just decide to send a great flood to kill them all (“Epic” 21).

The first incident happened right away in the story when it says that the wooden people were “just an experiment and just a cutout of human life” (“Popol” 61). The Maker, Modeler had complete intentions of killing the wooden people off because they were nothing more than a rough draft to him. He doesn’t come close to acknowledging the fact that they are living creatures, even if he created them being completely clueless of everything that’s going on around them and have any sort of intelligence in the slightest (“Popol”