... reason that they are able to give birth. Gilgamesh starts out his journey to attain immortality at the mountain Mashu where he encounters the Scorpion-men, guardians of boundary between earth and sky, who tell him "It is impossible Gilgamesh, Nobody has passed through the mountain's inaccessible tract. " (Epic of Gilgamesh 140) Gilgamesh is upset since he is asked to leave, no human can make pass through ... to Gilgamesh that he cannot attain what he's come in search of. Gilgamesh continues to tell Ut-napishtim the story of how Enkidu died and that Gilgamesh had set out on a quest to at...

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... describes how long God will have the rain go for. It also says that he is doing it to destroy all of mankind. After reading the two stories I concluded that forty days and forty nights was too long for it to rain without stopping; that is why the flood in Gilgamesh is more realistic. The length of the rains in the flood story in The Epic of Gilgamesh is easier ... than the length of the rains in Genesis. Even though the stories were different there was many similarities in the stories. In The Epic of Gilgamesh after the rains had stopped Utnapishtim's arc landed on top of, Mt. Nisir, a m...

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... hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits" (Gene. 6:15). In the Epic of Gilgamesh, "each side of the deck measured one hundred and twenty cubits, making a square" (pg. 109). The gods also commanded both men to bring one female and one male of each animal onto the boat with them. When the storms stopped in the Gilgamesh's flood, "on the mountain of Nisir the boat held ... their own significant meaning behind it. The main significance behind all of the similarities is the sequence of the events. The reason why the order of the events is so signific...

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... spared is that he was informed of the flood by Ea, the water god, through a dream. Ea was one of many gods in this time. He told him to build a boat of equal width and length. He was to tear down his house for wood and tell the curious townspeople that he was instructed to leave the city and go out to sea so as to ... please the gods. Ea also instructed him to take the seeds of life onto the ship with him. Meaning two of each animal, enough food for them and his family to ... through him. If Gilgamesh brought craftsmen on the boat, this is a new place to lay the blame for today's viole...

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... spared is that he was informed of the flood by Ea, the water god, through a dream. Ea was one of many gods in this time. He told him to build a boat of equal width and length. He was to tear down his house for wood and tell the curious townspeople that he was instructed to leave the city and go out to sea so as to ... please the gods. Ea also instructed him to take the seeds of life onto the ship with him. Meaning two of each animal, enough food for them and his family to ... through him. If Gilgamesh brought craftsmen on the boat, this is a new place to lay the blame for today's viole...

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... to preserve and save himself. He decides to go on his own journey in hopes of achieving his goal by talking to Utnapishtim, the one man who achieved immortality granted from the gods. His first journey to the cedar forest was in spite of death, his second journey to Utnapishtim is for a way to escape it. Gilgamesh approaches a great mountain where he must undergo a passage to which ... leaves, Utnapishtim's wife convinces her husband to tell Gilgamesh about a miraculous plant. The plant is capable of restoring youth. Excitedly, Gilgamesh gathers the great plant. However, he does not sim...

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