The two stories, The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis are very similar. Both of them describe a flood. There are many similarities in how they describe the flood. There are some differences but not many, and because stories are passed down generations it’s quite possible they are the same event.

Before the flood, the descriptions in both stories are very similar. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, a god ,Ea, comes to Utnapishtim and tells him to build a boat and take the seed of all creatures. He says “ Tear down your house, I say, and build a boat. These are the measurements of the barque as you shall build her: let her beam equal her length, let her deck be roofed like the vault that covers the abyss; then take up into the boat the seed of all living creatures.” It took him seven days to build the boat and then the flood came. It rained and stormed for six days and nights. Something very similar happened in the story from the genesis. God tells noah to build a boat and tells him the measurements. He …show more content…
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, he says that the sea was flat and he could only see the tip of a mountain.. They ground on the mountain and they let a dove loose. “ When the seventh day dawned I loosed a dove and let her go. She flew away, but finding no resting-place she returned.” Finally they found land and Utnapishtim made a sacrifice to the gods. In genesis the rain stopped falling and they came to rest on a mountain. Noah then let loose a dove “ Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to noah in the ark.” After a while the dove came back with an olive leaf, showing that somewhere there was land. When they grounded on the land noah made an offering to the gods. The ending is a bit different but most of it is just small