In general, the Gilgamesh Epic seems more interested in its human characters, whereas the biblical flood story seems more interested in the character of God. Gilgamesh is the complex main character of the Babylonian story and the gods are mostly functionaries to advance the plot, while in the primeval stories in Genesis, God is the complex main character, and the human characters of the Noah story look flat by comparison. Another difference is that although both stories end with a blessing on the