Flood Stories Comparison While most people have heard about the Hebrew flood story with Noah and his Arc‚ many do not know that there are two other flood stories in other cultures that are very similar in nature. All of these flood stories contain strikingly similar plots about a god who is angry and wipes out everyone in a flood‚ except a few lucky survivors who escape via some sort of boat. These two other stories are the Sumerian and Greek flood stories‚ and the similarities these stories share
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\Cosmic Creations Myths Across Culture Lakisha Mitchell May 8‚ 2013 HUM/105 Kevin Barker Many Christians have a very vague idea about the collection of the Old- Testament. The Old-Testament books are stories of the most famous myths. The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) is a book of Hebrew text‚ assemble by Jewish scholars of the seventh to tenth centuries A. D. It also contains two stories of creation. In addition‚ the book of Genesis is known as the book of creation of humankind
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The Epic of Gilgamesh The Hebrew Bible: Genesis Metamorphosis Satapatha Brahmana The Epic of Gilgamesh deprived from ancient Mesopotamian times‚ infused with Babylonian culture. The Hebrew Bible is now referred to as the “Old Testament”‚ which is the text the Jewish faith now follow. The Metamorphosis myth was spawned from the Romans. The Satapatha Brahmana tale is from the sacred text of the Hindu people. Prior to the point of the flood story‚ the story was written in the third person omniscient
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stories are similar in the beginning because they all start out with the Gods being unhappy. The Gods play a very big role in every flood narrative‚ whether it is one god or multiple gods. The story of Noah has one God‚ the Lord‚ who tells Noah of the coming event he is going to send down. Similar to Noah‚ the other three narratives also tell of one God warning someone or a couple of the impending flood. The difference between the god roles in these stories is that some‚ like the God Tlaloc in the narrative
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Andrew Amechand 11/5/12 Professor Parascandola HEG 21-005 The Story of the Flood in three Gilgamesh‚ The Metamorphosis and Genesis It is apparent in our class readings‚ that when the gods are angry at the humans they created‚ these gods unleash unforgiving rains to flood the earth‚ and kill the human race. Over the years‚ there have been various texts about these floods. While the occurrences of the floods themselves are continuous throughout these texts‚ they have varying reasons
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different journeys which causes the death of Endiku eventually. After the death of his best friend‚ Gilgamesh started to look for immortality in a journey that made him to meet Utnapishtim‚ the figure of Noah in The Epic of Gilgamesh. According to the epic‚ Utnapishtim became immortal after construct an ark‚ as it is indicated in the epic in the lines which say “O man of Shuruppak‚ son of Ubar-Tutu‚ tear down your house‚ build a ship; abandon wealth‚ seek after life; scorn possessions‚ save the life. Bring
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Dylan Provost Dr. Peter Neumann GE4300 Dec 8th 2014 Take Home Exam Section 1: Philosophical Movie Exegesis The Truman Show: The Truman Show is a movie based out of California featuring actor Jim Carey based on a real life television show about Truman Burbank’s life. The place that Truman lives is in fact a studio with over five thousand cameras capturing every minute of Truman’s life. Truman believes he is an ordinary man with an ordinary life and has no idea how he is exploited‚ but one day he
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Edward Hicks‚ Noah’s Ark Edward Hicks‚is known as an early “folk art” painter. He was born April 4‚ 1780 and died August 23‚ 1849. He is originally from Attleborough Pennsylvania which is now known as Langorne Pennsylvania. The American Revolutionary War impacted his life and was about to tear his family apart. His mother died when he was 18 months old His grandfather‚ Gilbert Hicks‚ had already fled northward (eventually to Nova Scotia) at the outbreak of the war. and his father‚ a British
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The Relevance of Noah’s Ark to Our Life In movie‚ there were two country called Sodom and Gomorrah. These two countries were frequently in war. In the last war which Noah participated in‚ Sodom was so happy about their triumph that God was angry. God decided to punish the evil people. Noah did not want this thing happened so he asked a favor of God hoping he would not die out all people. God asked Noah to write a list. If you were in the list‚ you would not die. People were all in jealousy and
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the story‚ it tells how Gilgamesh built a boat because the gods were going to send a flood and he wanted to cross the ocean to find immortality. Well‚ this is very similar to how God told Noah to build the ark because he was going to flood the whole world. This shows how Gilgamesh respected the gods as did Noah for God. In almost every epic or story‚ there were gods present and they were all immortal. Gilgamesh strived to be immortal but at the last second‚ a serpent robbed it from him and that’s
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