Between the Epic of Gilgamesh's story of the Flood and the Old Testament, there were some similarities that came out to me that were very significant One of them is how the floods were started in each story each flood was created by a God Each story has a similar way that the flood started In Gilgamesh, the God Enlil was starting to hear noise from the mortals, motivating him to destroy all of them In the Old Testament, God realizes that humans are persuaded to do evil, which begins the process