built a great ship to survive. The description of the
             building of the ship by Utnapishtim is similar to the building of Noah's
             arc: "Tear down (this) house, build a ship! Give up possessions, seek thou
             life. Despise property and keep the soul alive. Aboard the ship take thou
             the seed of all living things." Utnapishtim was granted immortality by the
             Within the story of Gilgamesh is a recounting of a Hell that is
             strikingly similar to that recounted within the Bible. "The house where
             the dead dwell in total darkness, Where they drink dirt and eat stone,
             Where they wear feathers like birds, Where no light ever invades their
             Hesiod's Theogony is a profound story that tells of the creation of
             the earth, sky, Eros, and the first generation of gods out of chaos. It
             provides a background to the later relative stability of the rule of Zeus,
             and was likely written in the 8th century B.C.
             Unlike the Bible, Theogony describes creation from a void of
             nothingness, and the creation of the physical features of the earth.
             Writes Hesiod, "'First of all, the Void (Chaos) came into being, next broad-
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