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Fear
of Wetness
 The
Biblical flood tale found in Genesis was predated
by a much older Mesopotamian story called "The
Epic of Gilgamesh", a portion
of which I laboriously copied and pasted from Wikipedia
for your reading pleasure. See if you can spot
the similarities:
"The god Ea told Utnapishtim to build a boat. He
gave him precise dimensions, and it was sealed
with pitch
and bitumen. His entire family went aboard together
with his craftsmen and "all the animals of
the field". A violent storm then arose which
caused the terrified gods to retreat to the heavens.
Ishtar lamented the wholesale destruction of humanity,
and the other gods wept beside her. The storm lasted
six days and nights, after which "all the
human beings turned to clay".
Utnapishtim
weeps when he sees the destruction. His boat lodges
on a mountain, and he releases a dove, a swallow,
and a raven. When the raven fails to return, he
opens the ark and frees its inhabitants. Utnapishtim
offers a sacrifice to the gods, who smell the sweet
savor and gather around. Ishtar vows that just
as she will never forget the brilliant necklace
that hangs around her neck, she will always remember
this time."
=Lefty=
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Noah and the ark.
Know ye, Noah, that I shall flood the earth
with rain for 40 days and 40 nights.
Or open the primordial floodgates for 150
days and 150 nights.
You know, six of one, half a dozen of the
other.
And you shall take two of each animal on
the ark.
Strike that, make it seven pairs of animals.
By that I mean seven pairs of clean animals
And just a single pair of the unclean ones.
Got it?
Then, when the waters recede, release a raven.
No wait! A dove! A dove would be like so
cool!
Once ashore sacrifice some of the animals
to my aweomeness.
After all, what's more important? me or the
gene pool? Right, Noah?
Noah?
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