What Are The Similarities Between Gilgamesh The Hero And Genesis 6-22

If you have read Gilgamesh the Hero and Genesis 6-9:19, you would think the two passages are pretty similar to each other, maybe even almost the same exact thing. But when we dive deeper into each passage of writing, you start to see that Gilgamesh the Hero to Genesis 6-9:17 are very different from each other. Even though their similarities will also be expressed in this essay, these stories are not as similar as you may think because of the Gods’ motivation for sending a flood, and how Noah and Utnapistim were warned about the incoming flood.
The Gods’ in both stories were upset with the way their creation, which was humanity, turned out to be. In their eyes, the only way to solve the issues that they had with humanity was to kill off

You see, in Gilgamesh the Hero, a god by the name of Enlil was already on edge because of humans. Enlil grew annoyed by humans because they made too much noise for his liking. To get rid of the noise, Enlil ordered another god by the name of Ea to “send plague to prune the noisiest.” The plague worked for a little while but as time went on humans got louder and louder and Enlil only grew more annoyed which eventually drove him to wanting every single human dead. After he slammed the windows of Heaven shut he stated, “I will not have this din! Drown the whole pack of them!” The rest of the gods agreed, and humankind was over with. In Genesis 6-9:17 however, the Lord was upset with “how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth.” The Lord also thought that “every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.” The Lord was unhappy with the way his creation turned out and

In Gilgamesh the Hero, Ea wanted to help a man by the name of Utnapishtim and in Genesis 6-9:17, The Lord wanted to help a man by the name of Noah. Both of the Gods from each story decided to give the person they wanted to help a warning, but they both communicated with them in different ways. In Genesis 6-9:17 Noah caught the eye of The Lord and he decided to spare him. According to the account of Genesis 6-9:17, Noah was described as a “righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.” The Lord decided to protect and guide Noah who also had a wife and three sons who also had wives. In the story, The Lord talked to Noah directly and did not sugarcoat his words while speaking to him. He also gave Noah very specific directions that he had to execute to a tee. While talking to him, The Lord tells Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.” The Lord also tells Noah to make an ark with cypress wood. The ark had to have rooms and he was to coat it with pitch inside and out. The Lord then tells him how big to make the ship, decks he had to have on it, and to bring his wife, his three sons, and their wives. The ark also was to have a wide array of animals on it. In Gilgamesh the Hero, the god Ea wanted to help Utnapishtim because