After reading this tablet, I could realize how history repeats itself. When Gilgamesh talks about how the Gods unite to discuss someone's destiny; this also happened in the Greek mythology. Zeus and the other Gods ha a reunion to discuss the fate of a city or specific person. But at the end Zeus decided. Its inpresive how different civilizations in history have adopted many customs and practices from past civilizations. Another example from this in the text was when Utnapishtim tells his story to Gilgamesh. He says the the Gods told him that he had to build a gisnt boat so he could safe himself from the great flod that was going to happen. This the excact same story of Noah in the Bible. There were some changes of course, but the main idea is the same. He builds the boat, only his family can travel with him, two of each species boards the boat. He releases a brid to find land, never comes back. Releases other birds only one comes back. In the book this is a little different. Utnapishtim believes they the Birds never came back because they found land. Another chane is that Utnapishtim himself finds land.
Other things I noticed was vocabulary. This are some of the words I didn't understand:
-Precinct: a district, as of a city, marked of governmental or administrative purposes, or police protection.
-Profusion: abundance, abundant quantity.
-Bitumen: any of various natural substances, as asphalt, maltha, or gilsonite, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.
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