Compare & Contrast Essay- Myths and Legends
Myths and legends are the foundations of today’s society. Throughout time, myths have connected cultures together by having shared beliefs, values, and a perspective based off of nature or other people by being passed down throughout generations. They provide guidelines for living, as in they show the actions of people such as ancestors or deities and the results of their actions and implies societal expectations for behavior based on the moral tone. Justifying a culture’s activities by establishing customs, rituals, religious practices, laws, social hierarchy, subject of art, and holidays celebrated is another way how myths and legends have influenced cultures. They also allow people to have a meaning …show more content…
They both start off with a god/gods being angry and upset with mankind and they decide that they have to be eliminated so they choose to have a flood to rid the earth of humans. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, “the uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by the reason od the babel.’ So the gods agreed to exterminate mankind” showed that they were going to do something about mankind. In Noah and the Flood, God explains his reasoning for destroying humans, “I will blot out from the earth the men whom I created-men together with beasts, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I regret that I made them” and “I have decided to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with lawlessness because of the,: I am about to destroy them with the earth.” Then, a god tells one person to build a boat and take their family and two of each animal along with them to escape the flood. The god, Ea, tells Utnapthism in a dream in the Epic of Gilgamesh “…warned me in a dream…’Reed-house, reed-house! Wall, O wall, hearken reed-house, wall reflect; O man od Shurrupak, son of Ubara-Tutu; tear down your house and build a boat, abandon possessions and look for life, despise worldly goods and save your soul alive, tear down your house, I say, and build a boat…then take up into the boat the seed of all living creatures.” In Noah and the Flood, Noah is God’s best man and instructs him to build an ark, “Make yourself an ark of gopher woods; make it an ark with compartments and cover it inside and out with pitch…You shall enter the ark, with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives. And all that lives, of all flesh, you shall take two of each into the ark to keep alive with you.” After the flood goes on for numerous days, the gods give each of the main characters with a reward. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim is rewarded with a place to live, and immortality, “In past time Utnapishtim
Myths and legends are the foundations of today’s society. Throughout time, myths have connected cultures together by having shared beliefs, values, and a perspective based off of nature or other people by being passed down throughout generations. They provide guidelines for living, as in they show the actions of people such as ancestors or deities and the results of their actions and implies societal expectations for behavior based on the moral tone. Justifying a culture’s activities by establishing customs, rituals, religious practices, laws, social hierarchy, subject of art, and holidays celebrated is another way how myths and legends have influenced cultures. They also allow people to have a meaning …show more content…
They both start off with a god/gods being angry and upset with mankind and they decide that they have to be eliminated so they choose to have a flood to rid the earth of humans. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, “the uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by the reason od the babel.’ So the gods agreed to exterminate mankind” showed that they were going to do something about mankind. In Noah and the Flood, God explains his reasoning for destroying humans, “I will blot out from the earth the men whom I created-men together with beasts, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I regret that I made them” and “I have decided to put an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with lawlessness because of the,: I am about to destroy them with the earth.” Then, a god tells one person to build a boat and take their family and two of each animal along with them to escape the flood. The god, Ea, tells Utnapthism in a dream in the Epic of Gilgamesh “…warned me in a dream…’Reed-house, reed-house! Wall, O wall, hearken reed-house, wall reflect; O man od Shurrupak, son of Ubara-Tutu; tear down your house and build a boat, abandon possessions and look for life, despise worldly goods and save your soul alive, tear down your house, I say, and build a boat…then take up into the boat the seed of all living creatures.” In Noah and the Flood, Noah is God’s best man and instructs him to build an ark, “Make yourself an ark of gopher woods; make it an ark with compartments and cover it inside and out with pitch…You shall enter the ark, with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives. And all that lives, of all flesh, you shall take two of each into the ark to keep alive with you.” After the flood goes on for numerous days, the gods give each of the main characters with a reward. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim is rewarded with a place to live, and immortality, “In past time Utnapishtim