In The Epic of Gilgamesh after the rains had stopped Utnapishtim’s arc landed on top of, Mt. Nisir, a mountain. It was the only place above the floodwaters that you could see. Utnapishtim said, “I looked for land in vain, but fourteen leagues distant there appeared a mountain, and the boat grounded; on the mountain of Nisir the boat held fast, she held fast and did not budge.” This quote describes how Utnapishtim was looking for land while stranded out in the floodwater and the only place he could see was Mount Nisir.
Correspondingly, in “The Story of the Flood” basically the similar thing happened. After the forty days and forty nights of rain Noah landed on Mount Ararat which is geographically three hundred miles away from Mount Nasir. This is another way to prove that the flood was probably real and not just a story to tell children so they would be scared to cause chaos. The two stories are both similar for the way described in the above paragraph. The major......

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Title: Epic Gilgamesh
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