[DOC] [TLE] Gilgamesh flood myth - Wikipedia [PAR] The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Many 
scholars believe that ... The earliest Sumerian Gilgamesh poems date from as 
early as the Third dynasty ... The flood story was included because in it the flood 
hero Utnapishtim is ... Ea commanded Utnapishtim to demolish his house and 
build a boat,... [DOC] [TLE] Flood myth - Wikipedia [PAR] A flood myth or deluge myth is a narrative in which a great flood, usually sent by a 
deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Parallels 
are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the ... Most flood 
myths also contain a culture hero, who "represents the human craving for life". [DOC] [TLE] Ziusudra - Wikipedia [PAR] Ziusudra of Shuruppak is listed in the WB-62 Sumerian king list recension as the 
last king of Sumer prior to the deluge. He is subsequently recorded as the hero of 
the Sumerian flood epic. ... Akkadian Atrahasis ("extremely wise") and 
Utnapishtim ("he found life"), as well as biblical Noah ("rest" or "comfort") are 
similar heroes... [DOC] [TLE] The Flood of Noah and the Flood of Gilgamesh | The Institute for ... [PAR] While there are differences between the original Sumerian and later Babylonian 
and ... The Epic of Gilgamesh is contained on twelve large tablets, and since the 
original ... The story starts by introducing the deeds of the hero Gilgamesh. ... The 
command for Utnapishtim to build the boat is remarkable: "O man of Shuruppak,... [DOC] [TLE] Flood Mythology [PAR] Sumerian The earliest extant flood legend is contained in the fragmentary 
Sumerian ... Enki instructs Ziusudra (also known as Atrahasis) to build a large 
boat - the text ... The hero Gilgamesh, seeking immortality, searches out 
Utnapishtim in ... and thus he survived along with some "seeds of life" to re-
establish life on earth. [DOC] [TLE] Flood Legends From Around the World - eNews for June 28, 2011 [PAR] Jun 28, 2011 ... It was a devastating, catastrophic event that destroyed all the ... Gilgamesh meets 
a man named Utnapishtim who survived the Great Flood. ... In the Gilgamesh 
epic, Utnapishtim describes how he was ordered to build a large boat, which ... 
that this cannibalistic people had Creation and Flood myths already... [DOC] [TLE] The Animals Went in Two by Two, According to Babylonian Ark Tablet [PAR] Aug 10, 2016 ... Old Babylonian flood tablet describes how to build a circular ark ... In the Epic of 
Gilgamesh, the god Enki tasks Utnapishtim to save the ... Ark Tablet is that the 
lifeboat built by Atra-hass the Noah-like hero ... Of course, this is no average 
coracleAtrahasis is to build a boat ..... 5: Few of mankind survive [DOC] [TLE] The great Flood: the Sumerian story - Livius [PAR] The story of the Great Flood has its origins in Sumer, the southern part of ancient 
... city of the hero of the Flood story, even though the Sumerian name of the hero, 
... The story survives on a cuneiform tablet from the seventeenth century BCE, ... 
Enki's advice, to build a big boat, must have been mentioned in a large lacuna. [DOC] [TLE] Floods - Myth Encyclopedia - Greek, god, story, legend, names ... [PAR] Small wonder, then, that flood myths occur in cultures around the world. ... Rivers, 
underlie mythological accounts of catastrophic rains and inundations. ... The 
Sumerian myth tells how the human race, which the gods had created to do their 
... in which he heard a god whispering to his reed house, Utnapishtim built a boat,
... [DOC] [TLE] Flood Stories from Around the World - The Talk.Origins Archive [PAR] Sep 2, 2002 ... While flood myths are common to practically every culture on the planet, they ... 
Sumerian; Egypt, Babylonian, Assyrian, Chaldean, Hebrew, Islamic .... Deucalion 
survived due to his prudence and piety and linked the first .... He and some 
craftsmen built a large boat (one acre in area,

Question: Mythic Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big boat & survived this catastrophe
Answer: The flood