... the goddess of creation created a man called Enkidu, she molded him out of clay. Enkidu was the keeper of the forest and the brother to Gilgamesh. In Gilgamesh it seems like Enkidu wasn't given much care or time when he was created compared to in Genesis it makes it seem like God was oh so ... is the fall of man and the search for everlasting life. The snake is represented in both of the stories. Gilgamesh is searching for everlasting life, and the everlasting life is within a flower. Gilgamesh finds the flower but is confronted by the snake and drops it. A snake also confronted Eve in t...

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... history of the early civilizations you find most of them have some sort of devastating deluge in their history. The most well recognized story outside the biblical account is the Gilgamesh epic. There are striking similarities in this story as to the one in the biblical account . One cannot help but wonder where these accounts of a worldwide flood originated. There has ... ...

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... have today? Why did I choose this topic? My original intention was to write about the story of Noah as told by the Bible, and compare it with the story of Gilgamesh. When I started compiling the research, I discovered that there was more documentation interpreting the bible than I ever imagined. I found myself more interested in how the bible came to be than with ... ...

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