Talk:Gilgamesh flood myth

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Its only a myth if is isnt true. You have no evidence either way. SO stop calling it a myth.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.7.152.107 (talk) 14:38, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

message: Question!  I thought that The Epic of Giglamesh was babylonian.. well I don't know but thats what I thought because it was written in cuneiform which is for sure babylonian but I wasn't sure if akkadians where also babylonian. 74.203.168.58 (talk) 01:44, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Akkadian?

message: I have removed the clause that the reason he didn't eat the plant immediately was because he wanted to share it with older elders of Uruk.  The entire reason that Gilgamesh went on his journeys was to try to bring Enkidu back to life.  The reason he didn't eat the plant was because he wanted to use it to bring Enkidu back to life.  Not because he wanted to share it with other elders of Uruk. Wjhonson (talk) 06:46, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Reason for not eating plant

message: This image [File:GilgameshTablet.jpg] is upside down.  Could someone rotate it please?  Here's the British Museum's picture of it the right way up: . Thanks Chasuble (talk) 15:31, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image upside down  

message: The link for Utnapishtim takes you to the originating page.
JohnVBoyle (talk) 23:36, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. I saw this comment and removed the link. SamEV (talk) 17:15, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circular Link 

message: This article in unacceptable.  It is confusing, doesn't fully explain the topic,.  Doesn't outline the story etc. focuses too much on the copying of the tablet thing a ma jig128.100.71.45 (talk) 17:05, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree - it would be good if this article contained a summary of the flood myth. As it stands, this article talks about the documents containing the myth but doesn't say what it is! Laetoli (talk) 11:48, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I added the requested material which now says what the Gilgamesh flood myth is. Greensburger (talk) 20:10, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  terrible article 

message: In this article, article on Utnapishtim merged. It was not done properly. There is no mention or additional information of that figure, I feel this style of merging amounts to, in a way, deleting the original article. I regret for this style of working of wikipedia administration editors. Pathare Prabhu (talk) 11:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging of article on Utnapishtim 

message: Shows incredible density of text re:  http://www.answersingenesis.org/assets/images/articles/nab/gilgamesh-tablet.jpg 217.43.154.238 (talk) 00:58, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo of relic could show size (in hand) 

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message: Why does the article say the table was created in the 7th century BCE? The article states that the flood story was found on poems from 2,000-2,100 BCE. אוהד בר-און (talk) 19:02, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: These poems are Atra-Hasis (18th century BCE) and possibly related texts of similar age. The flood myth is considered a late addition to the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the tablets describing it were written in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (9th century-7th century BCE). The Assyrians did not simply transmit the epic, they modified and expanded it. Dimadick (talk) 23:36, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  When was the story first told