The film "Noah"

Korben_Dallas wrote:You guys do know that the story of Noah isn`t a Christian story, but a story hijacked from Gilgamesh
the Biblical Flood story is derived from the Mesopotamian version

Sassy wrote:

Korben_Dallas wrote:You guys do know that the story of Noah isn`t a Christian story, but a story hijacked from Gilgamesh
the Biblical Flood story is derived from the Mesopotamian version

King of Uruk who survived the great flood.    Been used in all kinds of stories.  

Eilzel wrote:To be fair just about every OT story has origins in even older mythologies, Jesus himself was hardly the first son of a god

Handy Andy wrote:/But does Emma Watson get her tits out?

Handy Andy wrote:/But does Emma Watson get her tits out?

Eilzel wrote:If Noah ever existed (which I doubt) he would have been a Jew wouldn't he? 4000 years ago neither Muslims or Christians existed and both developed their faiths from Jusaism.

Another Biblical blockbuster due out is Exodus by Ridley Scott, looks great :-)

Ben_Reilly wrote:

eddie wrote:
Anyone seen this? Watched it last night. It's got Russell Crowe in it as Noah and Ray Winstone, also my fave, Anthony Hopkins.

Really excellent take on the bible story and shows Noah in a slightly different light.

Well worth seeing.

I heard about it, pissed off the Christians and the Muslims (the bad sort from each). So I'll definitely check it out; flood stories fascinate me ...

Handy Andy wrote:/But does Emma Watson get her tits out?

Lone Wolf wrote:

Eilzel wrote:If Noah ever existed (which I doubt) he would have been a Jew wouldn't he? 4000 years ago neither Muslims or Christians existed and both developed their faiths from Jusaism.

Another Biblical blockbuster due out is Exodus by Ridley Scott, looks great :-)

NO, not quite...

EVEN though the story is a myth, and could never have happened; the setting for the story would be pre-Judaism ~ actually one of those faiths that led up to Judaism.

People have become rebellious. Atum said he will destroy all he made and return the earth to the Primordial Water which was its original state. Atum will remain, in the form of a serpent, with Osiris. [Faulkner, plate 30] (Unfortunately the version of the papyrus with the flood story is damaged and unclear. See also Budge, p. ccii.)

Bunjil, the creator, was angry with people because of the evil they did, so he caused the ocean to flood by urinating into it. All people were destroyed except those whom Bunjil loved and fixed as stars in the sky, and a man and a woman who climbed a tall tree on a mountain, and from whom the present human race is descended. [Gaster, p. 114]

A giant frog once swallowed all the water, and no one else could get anything to drink. After many other animals failed, eel, with his remarkable contortions, made the frog laugh, releasing the water. Many were drowned in the flood. The whole of mankind would have perished if the pelican had not picked up survivors in his canoe. [Roheim, p. 156; Gaster, p. 114]