XI

During Gilgamesh's journey he starts to wonder how a man can become immortal and tries to find out a way to do so , on the way he met Upnapishtim who is the god of floods, he starts to tell Gilgamesh the story about how there is a flood and he has to build an arc and put two of each animal in it. and how after the flood he finds land. Gilgamesh then asks how he can become immortal and he sends him on some quests , one is not to sleep for a week but when he is about to begin he falls into a deep sleep, Upnapishtim tells his wife to bake bread every day until Gilgamesh wakes up so that there is proof that he was asleep since he would deny it, Gilgamesh woke up on the seventh day. This story is like the story of Noah's arc because he builds a boat (arc) to ave all the animal species from a flood, he is then honored for saving the animals and human kind.