urements of the baroque as you shall build her: let her beam equal her length, let her deck be roofed like the vault that covers the abyss; then take up into the boat the seed of all living creatures (pg. 23-24).” In addition “The Story of the Flood” for about the same reasons God did the same thing. God said, “The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth(pg. 47 line 13).” Finally, he told Noah to build an arc while walking and talking to him. He told him to build an arc because he was going to have a flood fueled by forty days and forty nights of rain. Therefore the two stories are both similar in the reason why the god or gods sent it. In conclusion the flood stories in The Epic of Gilgamesh and the flood story of Genesis are the same in ways and different in some. You can conclude this from the reasons given above. These stories relate to the world and people today because people look to the flood stories for religious reasons. When people look at these stories they feel that if they start to become corrupt and chaotic that a god might make a natural disaster to wipe out mankind. That is the importance that the flood stories have on all of mankind....
