Gilgamesh Blog #8-Final Post

While reading Gilgamesh, I kept trying to connect it to both old and brand new novels. That was both for the purposes of this blog, anf for my own knowledge. Like any other great book, Gilgamesh isn't made up of just a series of words, but real messages meant to teach something to the reader. In the case of Gilgamesh, I think that after reading it, you learn a series of life lessions meant to be learned by all Mesopotamians at the time of the book, things like bravery, friendship, and happiness,
Epic though it was, this book was also majorly religious, as it tried to answer some of the fundamental questions through religion: What happens when we die? Can we avoid death? In summation, I think that this was a fantastic book and I enjoyed learning from it. For instance, while I had heard other cultures had similar flood stories to the bible, I didn't imagine that Noah's Ark was stolen almost verbatim from The Epic of Gilgamesh. What other things do we use in modern society that came from those kind of places? What else have other cultures claimed their own?