would all religious people of the world please look this up?

Question

the epic of the gigimesh is the oldest fairy-tale known. it dates to over 4,500 years old. it was written by a unknown auther as a bedtime story for children, thousands of copies exist today. its the story of noah and the ark. well the jews put it in the torah, then the christians put it in thier bible, along came mohammad and made him a prophet. would someone please tell me how many more should die for fairy-tales

Answer 1

Do you have any idea how much of our history started out as a "fairy-tale" other wise known as "Oral History". How else were our Ancestors to pass knowledge to the next generation before the written word?

In fact it is a method still use TODAY to gather historical information!

Oral history is a method of historical documentation, using interviews with living survivors of the time being investigated.

Contemporary oral history involves recording or transcribing eyewitness accounts of historical events. Some anthropologists started collecting recordings (at first especially of Native American folklore) on phonograph cylinders in the late 19th century. In the 1930s the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sent out interviewers to collect accounts from various groups, including surviving witnesses of the American Civil War, Slavery, and other major historical events. The Library of Congress also began recording traditional American music and folklore onto acetate discs. With the development of audio tape recordings after World War II, the task of oral historians became easier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_History

Oral tradition or oral culture is a way for a society to transmit history, literature, law or other knowledge across generations without a writing system. An example that combined aspects of oral literature and oral history, before eventually being set down in writing, is the Homeric epic poetry of the Iliad and the Odyssey. In a general sense, "oral tradition" refers to the transmission of cultural material through vocal utterance, and was long held to be a key descriptor of folklore (a criterion no longer rigidly held by all folklorists). As an academic discipline, it refers both to a method and the objects studied by the method.

The study of oral tradition is distinct from the academic discipline of oral history, which is the recording of personal memories and histories of those who experienced historical eras or events. It is also distinct from the study of orality, which can be defined as thought and its verbal expression in societies where the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar to most of the population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_tradition

Answer 2

Listen. That story that was not some fairy tale but based on a true event so profound that they had to report it. It was passed on from one generation to the next. In fact it is so etched in the history of early mans' existence that it was spread all over the world. Yes there are different versions of it. The people who started to gather myths and legends in the late 1800's and early 1900's soon saw similar stories in all cultures around the world of creation and the flood. They all had a beginning and the roots are where you cited the Gilgamesh story.

I am a believer and know that even Jesus Christ himself in his genealogy has Noah and Shem as his descendants. Jesus himself considered the story of the flood and Noah to be an actual fact.

Back to the Gilgamesh story. You need to realize that Abraham came from that region of the world in Iraq where the story started. He lived when Shem was living who was called Melchizedek. He was a man who had no beginning or end, but of course the people who lived before the flood lived for many years. Abraham brought the truth with him because Noah's son Shem had passed that story onto him.

That is how the story was picked up in the Jewish tradition and is in the Bible today. The Bible could be considered a historical book for this particular event. It carried a genealogy from Adam to Noah to Abraham.

Answer 3

What is the Epic of gigimesh ? Your question is a "fairy tale" as it misses the mark on the TRUTHS of the Sumerian "Epic of Gilgamesh." One of the stories within it relates to a "localized" flood possibly when the Persian Gulf formed around "4700 years ago" not 4600 years, and the stories does not mention NOAH. The Hebrews around 38 to 39 hundred years ago plagiarized this story and exaggerated it to world proportions and IT having been as they wrote it.

One thing you are right about is the fact that the ancient Hebrews loved to EXAGGERATE and take history out of context PLUS make situations which happened in other cultures their own. You would expect this though out of a peoples who to date have accomplished very little with their so called GOD, whom they couldn't even give a SUPERIOR character. The Creator the hebrews deplict is such a behavioral mess, if he were REAL, he would need centuries of therapy to correct it's behaviors for this God suffers from bipolar and bouts of schizophrenia......

Answer 4

I think something happened, and some embellishments were made in order to help us understand that we don't know everything, and are but small creatures in a very big world. I agree with the poster who said that about oral tradition. The written word was not invented for a very long time, and modern people have been on Earth for 60-70,000 years now.

For instance, if you read Greek mythology, the centaur may capture your imagination, but everyone knows that there was no such a thing ever existed. Ukrainians (Scythian, Cimmerians) were the first known archaeologically proved people known to have tamed the horse. Ukrainians and Greeks met. To hear the Greek's side of it (the most popular renditions) one would think that such a beast would really exist, while everyone in the world laughed at their primitive fear to see a horsed man. They turned it into a strength, and their literature has withstood time inspite of it.

Answer 5

Your history hurts my brain. The Epic of Gilgamesh was not "a bedtime story for children." It was a religious and cultural myth. The flood is one part of the story: one tablet of 11. Moreover, its a late addition. The flood was taken from an even older myth, of which it is again only a portion.

And lets be clear...no one today is dying over the story of Noah and the Ark. Please stop with the dramatics.

Answer 6

Gilgamesh is not the oldest story known. If you want to twist it to suit you then that is your problem. I do not know how many want to die for your fairy tales.

Answer 7

Hmmmmm. Before there was written history there was oral history. Isn't it possible the "fairy-tale" could be based on oral history?

Answer 8

Btw the enuma elish is the myth form which the genesis was plagiarized. I just tough i should add this.

Answer 9

a pair of terrorist assaults , homicide of Jews and harmless human beings in center East and politics ! shall we desire the subsequent technology would not fall deep and pursues extra useful coaching and life for his or her families !

Answer 10

i wish i could understand what you mean but no i dont believe in fairy tales