epic of gilgamesh.pptx

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An epic poem from Mesopotamia | Group II


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One of the earliest surviving works oliterature.

Sumerians (Bilgamesh) Akkadian(Surpassing All Other Kings) AssyriaWho Saw The Deep)


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WHO IS GILGA

A historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, on the REuphrates in modern Iraq

Lived about 2700 BC

Successfully bested his kingdoms enemy, kinAgga, in which he defeats the Bull of Heavenwhich he slays the monster Huwawa, and in his friend Enkidu travels to the Netherworld.


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WHAT IS THE EPIC OF GILGA

A combination of many old tales adding newdimensions

Quest for immortality

Composed of 12 tablets

Tablet 11 discussed about the flood myth


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STORY |

The second half of the epic focuses on Gilgadistress at Enkidu's death, and his quest forimmortality. In order to learn the secret of eteGilgamesh undertakes a long and perilous jo

He learns that "The life that you are seeking ynever find. When the gods created man theyallotted to him death, but life they retained iown keeping."


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TABLET E

Gilgamesh observes that Utnapishtim seems different from himself, and asks him how he ohis immortality. Utnapishtim explains that the decided to send a great flood. To save Utna

the god Ea told him to build a boat. He gaveprecise dimensions, and it was sealed with pibitumen. His entire family went aboard, togewith his craftsmen and "all the animals of theviolent storm then arose which caused the te

gods to retreat to the heavens.


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TABLET E

Ishtar lamented the wholesale destruction ofhumanity, and the other gods wept beside hstorm lasted six days and nights, after which "human beings turned to clay". Utnapishtim w

when he sees the destruction. His boat lodgemountain, and he releases a dove, a swallowraven. When the raven fails to return, he opeark and frees its inhabitants. Utnapishtim offesacrifice to the gods, who smell the sweet sa

gather around.


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TABLET E

Ishtar vows that just as she will never forget thbrilliant necklace that hangs around her necwill always remember this time. When Enlil arrangry that there are survivors, she condemns

instigating the flood. Ea also castigates him fsending a disproportionate punishment. Enlil Utnapishtim and his wife, and rewards them weternal life. This account matches the flood sthat concludes the Epic of Atrahasis.


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RELATIONSHIPTO THE BIBLE

Various themes, plotelements, and

characters inthe Epic of

Gilgamesh have

counterparts in thebook of Genesis,

notably in the storiesof the Garden ofEden and Noah's

Flood.


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Andrew R. George submits that the floodgenesis 68 matches the Gilgamesh flood

closely, "few doubt" that it deriveMesopotamian account. What is pa

noticeable is the way the genesis flood storthe Gilgamesh flood tale "point by point an

same order", even when the story permalte

Parallelism to th


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ACTIVLets get it


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Compare the Biblical story of the flood wthe version of the flood with the version flood by Utnapishtim in Gilgamesh.

Identify several ways in which the two flo

similar and several ways in which they adifferent.


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What is/are the literary device(s) used inaccounts of the flood? Prove and expla


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