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The tablet has remarkable similarites to the Biblical account, such as the collection of animals; the violence of the Flood; the landing on a mountain (Mt Nimush); and the sending forth of a dove. However, differences abound: the ark is cube-shaped; such a vessel actually being built would have been tossed and spun around severely in the waves. Utnapishtim refers to the gods being ''frightened by the Flood, and retreated, ascending to the heaven of Anu. The gods were cowering like dogs, crouching by the outer wall''; a sacrifice by Utnapishtim after he left the ark collected the gods ''like flies over a (sheep) sacrifice'' [http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab11.htm]. This is in sharp contrast to the God of the Bible, who is in total control.
The tablet has remarkable similarites to the Biblical account, such as the collection of animals; the violence of the Flood; the landing on a mountain (Mt Nimush); and the sending forth of a dove. However, differences abound: the ark is cube-shaped; such a vessel actually being built would have been tossed and spun around severely in the waves. Utnapishtim refers to the gods being ''frightened by the Flood, and retreated, ascending to the heaven of Anu. The gods were cowering like dogs, crouching by the outer wall''; a sacrifice by Utnapishtim after he left the ark collected the gods ''like flies over a (sheep) sacrifice'' [http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab11.htm]. This is in sharp contrast to the God of the Bible, who is in total control.
===Greek tale of Deucalion===
===Chaldean===
The Greeks had a tale of Zeus being enraged over a king's sacrifice of an infant on an altar in his temple, and discovering the depraavity of man in general. Zeus gathered a council of the gods, and together washed away mankind; only Deucalion, having been warned in advance by Prometheus, escaped by building a great chest whereupon he and Pyrrha escaped to safety, landing on Mt. Parnassus. [http://www.maicar.com/GML/Flood.html].
Xisuthrus built a large vessel at the warning of the god Chronos, who spoke of a coming flood. Xisuthrus was to gather his family, friends, and two of every animal. Birds were sent out in search of land when the waters began to subside, some of which bore mud on their feet. [http://wovoca.com/myths-flood-1.htm]
===Zoroastrian===
The god Ahura Mazda warned Yima of the destruction of the sinful world, and to escape the flooding Yima was to build a ''vara'' with which to carry pairs of animals. [http://wovoca.com/myths-flood-1.htm]
===Hindu===
A fish, in gratitude for Manu saving its life from another fish, warned him of a coming flood and told him to build a boat and put many animals on it. During the flood, Manu threw a rope to the fish, which towed the vessel to a mountain, allowing Manu to tie the vessel fast to a tree as the waters swept away all remaining life. [http://wovoca.com/myths-flood-1.htm]
===Greek===
The Greeks had a tale of Zeus being enraged over a king's sacrifice of an infant on an altar in his temple, and discovering the depraavity of man in general. Zeus gathered a council of the gods, and together washed away mankind; only Deucalion, having been warned in advance by Prometheus, escaped by building a great chest whereupon he and Pyrrha escaped to safety, landing on Mt. Parnassus. [http://www.maicar.com/GML/Flood.html]. [http://wovoca.com/myths-flood-1.htm]
===Australian===
The Flood of the Aborigines was called the Dreamtime Flood, where the ark Gumana carried men and animals came to rest on the plain of Djilinbadu, about 70 km south of where Noonkanbah Station stands now. [http://wovoca.com/myths-flood-1.htm]
===Native American tales===
===Native American tales===