[Carry_Okie]

The story of Gilgamesh involves the same releases of birds to test subsidance as does that of Noah according to a version of it in a library book we were using for my kids' history lesson on Sumerian civilization, and that's ALL I've seen. I noted that since it was a PC book approved for children (wouldn't want the kiddies to be learning about something from the Bible (that would be religion, Babylonian religion is OK though)) there was (of course) no mention of Noah in the story or its introduction. I pick some of this stuff up in wierd places.

[blam]

"The story of Gilgamesh involves the same releases of birds to test subsidance as does that of Noah according to a version of it in a library book we were using for my kids' history lesson on Sumerian civilization, and that's ALL I've seen."

I've read the Gilgamesh translation and I agree, the similaraties are unmistakeable. I have (all this time) accepted the idea/theory that they originated from the same source also. It's that 2,900 year gap that is the problem. Until I checked out these dates, I had just accepted that the Black Sea flood was Noah's and that it was the source of both these stories, Noah/Gilgamesh. Now I don't know what to think. Hmmmm