The narratives Genesis, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Enuma Elish show similarities to one another. The different cultures include those of the Babylonians, Sumerians, and Hebrew. It portrays an abundant portion of differences including divine beings, human relationships, order, peace, violence, love, trust, and faith. The story seems to have been revised and augmented from time to time until it probably received it’s final form toward the end of the second millennium. The epic thus appears to have been a Babylonian creation inspired by the search for an answer to a question about the goal of human existence.
The relationships between the gods and humans in the Epic of Gilgamesh narrative were similar to slaves and their masters. Tablet XI
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The creation of heaven was a bloodbath. “As Tiamat opened her mouth to its full extent, He drove in the evil wind, while as yet she had not shut her lips. The terrible winds filled her belly, and her courage was taken from her, and her mouth opened wide. He seized the spear and burst her belly, He severed her inward parts, he pierced her heart” (Enuma Elish, Tablet 4, Pg10). This quote represents the violence and malicious acts that occurred during this time. The death of Tiamat resulted in the firmament, the creation of the heavens. In the book of Genesis, God created Heaven from 4 words “ Let there be a firmament”(Genesis 1:6), “And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so”.(Genesis, 1:6-7) The creation of heaven was short, concise, and straight to the point. There was no battle or any blood that needed to be spilled. Peace: