In The Epic of Gilgamesh we have no motive given for the divine destruction whatsoever. It just seems to be pure capriciousness.

在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，并没有引起这场大灾难的原因,似乎就像是一场自然灾难。

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This parallel is The Epic of Gilgamesh I get to point this way now, to the boards, okay?

这个故事便是《吉尔伽美什史诗》,我应该指这边？

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In The Epic of Gilgamesh they were the ones who got the plant of eternal youth. It's etiological.

在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中,蛇得到了可以永葆年轻的植物，所以蜕皮。

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But the most detailed flood story we have actually comes from The Epic of Gilgamesh, on the eleventh tablet of The Epic of Gilgamesh.

但是其中，记载最详尽的,是在《吉尔伽美什史诗》11章中。

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The story of the first human pair in the Garden of Eden, which is in Genesis 2 and 3 has clear affinities with the Epic of Gilgamesh, that's a Babylonian and Assyrian epic in which a hero embarks on this exhausting search for immortality.

创世纪2至3，里，伊甸园亚当和夏娃的故事,与《吉尔迦美什史诗》有着密切的联系，《吉尔迦美什史诗》是巴比伦人和亚叙人的,一个英雄竭尽全力追求永生的故事。

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So that's tablet I from The Epic of Gilgamesh.

这段摘自《吉尔伽美什史诗》

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On the one hand it's clearly good that humans rise above the animals and build cities and wear clothes and pursue the arts of civilization and develop bonds of love and duty and friendship the way that animals do not; these are the things that make humans like the gods in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

一方面，成为人类也未尝不是一件好事,人类优于动物，穿着衣服，用自己的双手建造城市,打造文明的生活方式，而爱和责任,把人类联结起来，这些是动物无法比拟的,在《吉尔伽美什史诗》中，这些特质让人类具有神性。

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