What role does rain/water play in the story Gilgamesh???

Question

Please help first person who gets it right gets 10 poinTS!!!

Answer 1

I've got you the whole epic of Gilgamesh so that later you don't have to waste another 5 points asking his story:

Gilgamesh Epic, an important Middle Eastern literary work, written in cuneiform on 12 clay tablets around 2000 bc. This heroic poem is named after its hero, Gilgamesh, a tyrannical Babylonian king who ruled the city of Erech (Uruk) on the site of present-day Warka, Iraq. According to the myth, the gods respond to the prayers of the oppressed citizenry of Erech and send a wild, brutish man, Enkidu, to challenge Gilgamesh to a wrestling match. When the contest ends with neither as a clear victor, Gilgamesh and Enkidu become close friends. They journey together and share many adventures. Accounts of their heroism and bravery in slaying dangerous beasts spread to many lands.

When the two travellers return to Erech, Ishtar, guardian deity of the city, proclaims her love for the heroic Gilgamesh. When he rejects her, she sends the Bull of Heaven to destroy the city. Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the bull, and, as punishment for his participation, the gods doom Enkidu to die. After Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh seeks out the wise man Utnapishtim to learn the secret of immortality. The sage recounts to Gilgamesh a story of a great flood (the details of which are so remarkably similar to later biblical accounts of the flood that scholars have taken great interest in this story)which he had to bear for 40 days and nights like the christian prophet NOAH. After much hesitation, Utnapishtim reveals to Gilgamesh that a plant bestowing eternal youth is in the sea. Gilgamesh dives into the water and finds the plant but later loses it to a serpent and, disconsolate, returns to Erech to end his days.

This saga was widely studied and translated in ancient times. Biblical writers appear to have modelled their account of the friendship of David and Jonathan on the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Numerous Greek writers also incorporated elements found in the Gilgamesh epic into their dragon-slaying epics and into stories concerning the close bond between Achilles and Patroclus.

Answer 2

Well basically Utanapishtim goes through the same thing as Noah did...and thats alot of rain/water lol

Answer 3

Relates over to the "Flood" in the bible--- may be the same thing everyone talks about.

Answer 4

its the same thing that happens in the bible with noah the waterwas the flood that kills a lot of ppl

Answer 5

I'm not going to answer your question. But I will share something interesting I've found:

http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Sources/BBgilg.html

Answer 6

um lets see he faced a flood, so water was a big deal right?

Answer 7

did u mean besides the flood?

Answer 8

He was surrounded by it forty days and forty nights.