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According to [[creationists]] the world was then repopulated by the [[Post-Diluvian Diasporas]] | According to [[creationists]] the world was then repopulated by the [[Post-Diluvian Diasporas]] | ||
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| + | Excavations in the ancient city of [[Ninevah]] unearthed 12 clay tablets detailing the story of a mythical king of Uruk named Gilgamesh, and written between 2750-2500 B.C. [http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/index.html] Tablet 11 of this ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' had the hero learn the secret of immortality by going to the island of Utnapishtim, where he discovers that Utnapishtim is also the builder of the ark which carried man and animals on the seas of the flood. | ||
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| + | :''Six days and seven nights came the wind and flood,the storm flattening the land.When the seventh day arrived, the storm was pounding,the flood was a war--struggling with itself like a woman writhing (in labor).The sea calmed, fell still, the whirlwind (and) flood stopped up.I looked around all day long--quiet had set in and all the human beings had turned to clay!'' [http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab11.htm] | ||
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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]. | ||
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Revision as of 23:28, March 22, 2007
The Great Flood refers to the biblical flood mentioned in Genesis.
It bears many similarities to other Mesopotamian deluge myths, although that was primarily due to the other cultures in the region stealing ideas from the Bible. (NB: important to note that even though secularist 'dating' results in Sumerian mythology as being considered older than The Bible, this is in fact incorrect, and The Bible is the first known human text.)
God commanded Noah to create Noah's Ark to save him and his family and each of the animal kinds from the Great Flood. After the Flood, a rainbow appears as a covenant from God. (Unfortunately, the rainbow, sign of a covenant with God, has been co-opted by the secularists to be a sign of their sinful, rebellious, anti-God lifestyle.)
According to creationists the world was then repopulated by the Post-Diluvian Diasporas
Babylonian flood story
Excavations in the ancient city of Ninevah unearthed 12 clay tablets detailing the story of a mythical king of Uruk named Gilgamesh, and written between 2750-2500 B.C. [1] Tablet 11 of this Epic of Gilgamesh had the hero learn the secret of immortality by going to the island of Utnapishtim, where he discovers that Utnapishtim is also the builder of the ark which carried man and animals on the seas of the flood.
- Six days and seven nights came the wind and flood,the storm flattening the land.When the seventh day arrived, the storm was pounding,the flood was a war--struggling with itself like a woman writhing (in labor).The sea calmed, fell still, the whirlwind (and) flood stopped up.I looked around all day long--quiet had set in and all the human beings had turned to clay! [2]
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 [3].
References
- Unger, Merril F. Unger's Bible Dictionary, Moddy Press, Chicago, IL (1966)
External Links
- http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab11.htm Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet 11 (Flood Story)