Sunday, October 10, 2010
The Flood Stories
Many cultures have a flood story in their history. A lot of these stories are very similar, but the flood stories from Gilgamesh and the Bible are especially alike. Both stories involve the gods or God causing a massive flood to wipe out humanity, and in both stories one family survives. Each of the families in turn brings two of each animal to repopulate the Earth. In both stories, a dove and a raven are released to try to find dry land. The stories do have a few differences, such as the length of the flood, but they are too much alike for it to be a coincidence. I believe that stories of an actual historical flood were passed down orally, long before either book was written. The stories developed the differences that they did due to differences in their recitation.
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Way to go sasselsquash! I agree with your story about the floods.
ReplyDeleteP.S. You smell. :]
Wow, that is way longer than mine. Good job though. :) Your background is also very lovely.
ReplyDeleteI see you applied our conversation to your own blog post.
ReplyDeleteSasselsquash, your ideas about the stories of the floods are great! And your background is pretty!
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