Gilgamesh Blog #6

A while ago, I decided that the supernatural events that occured in the Torah, like Noah's Ark and Moses' spliting of the red sea, were either not true, or that they extremely exagerated and in reality have a simple scientific explination. After reading pages 65-82 of Gilgamesh, I realized that Noah's Ark was stolen from Gilgamesh.
"Utnapishtim, son of Ubartutu, abandon your house, abandon what you possess, abandon your house and build a boat instead. Seek life instead of riches, save yourself. Take with you, on the boat you build, an instance of each thing living so that they may be safe from obliteration in the flood" (p.66)
Are those not very nearly or even exactly the same words that god spoke to Noah? The words of the Bible were only changed to have a more moral meaning, to teach a lesson to humans so that they won't sin. The rest of the flood story is also the same as Noah's Ark in the Bible. "And on the seventh day I freed a dove. The dove flew free and flew away from the boat, seeking a place for its little feet to alight, and finding none, flew back to the boat to perch. I freed a swallow then and it flew free and flew away from the boat, seeking a place for its little feet to alight, and finding none, flew back to the boat to find a place to alight. I freed a raven and then it flew free..." (p.72)
The gods then tested Gilgamesh to see if he was worthy of being immortal and found that he was not. This reminds me of the movie Hercules, when Hercules asked Zeus how he could join him, and Zeus saying he had to prove himself as a hero.