Gilgamesh and Popol Vuh had many similarities between each book . The first similarity was that they both had the culture differences. Popol Vuh is an religion history or for a better word we call it “bible” for the ancient Mayan civilization. Gilgamesh is more of a religious document rather than any kind of Mesopotamian myth that involves religion figures . We can learn …show more content…
God chose a righteous man to build an ark because of great flooding happening. In both stories they both have an account from all species of animals were to be on the ark , and the birds were used after the rains to determine the flood waters. In the stories of Genesis and Gilgamesh both of them had arks the only difference of the arks were that Noah’s ark was rectangular and utnapishtim's was square. Both of the arks had a single door and at least one window . Genesis flooding was fourth days and nights while Gilgamesh flood was much shorter being six days and nights . In the story there was a righteous man who was directed to build an ark to save a limited and select group of people now the difference was that Noah had received his directly from a God and Utnapishtim came from a