Who was the Mesopotamian version of Noah from the Bible?

Answer 1

Noah was from the area described in The Bible as Mesopotamia. There are traditions of a catastrophic flood to be found in many ancient cultures. There are those who say Noah resembled the "hero" in some of these traditions.

• Egyptian tradition: The gods at one time purified the earth by a great flood, from which only a few shepherds escaped.
• Greek Tradition: Deucalion warned that the gods were going to bring a flood upon the earth because of its great wickedness; he built an ark, which came to rest on Mount Parnassus. A dove was sent out twice.
• Hindu tradition: Manu, warned, built a ship in which he alone escaped from a deluge that destroyed all creatures.
• Chinese tradition: Fa-He, founder of Chinese civilization, is represented as having escaped from a flood- sent because man had rebelled against heaven- with his wife, three sons, and three daughters.
• English tradition: The Druids had a legend that the world had been repeopled by a righteous patriarch who had been saved in a strong ship from a flood sent to destroy man for his wickedness.
• Polynesian tradition: Stories of a flood from which eight escaped.
• Mexican tradition: One man and his way and children were saved in a ship from a flood which overwhelmed the earth.
• Peruvian tradition: One man and one woman were saved in a box that floated on the flood waters.
• Native American tradition: Various legends, in which one, three, or eight persons were saved in a boat above the waters on a high mountain.
• Greenland tradition: The earth once titled over, and all men were drowned, except one man and one woman, who replenished the earth.
• Gilgamesh tradition: From Sumeria. The hero of this story Utnapishtim , is most often compared to Noah from the Bible.