WHAT DID NOAH THINK?

About forty plus years ago I wrote a [bad] poem about Noah that contained the line "the world through Noah's eyes" that went on to draw tortuous comparisons between the Biblical Flood and the placement of cruise missiles in the UK. Yes it was as awful as it sounds. The other day that line about how the world must have looked to Noah popped into my head. These days I know more about the myth it was based on, which is mentioned in The Epic of Gilgamesh. The later was version tailored for the Old Testament during the exile in Babylon.  

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What did Noah think?

Parachuted into a borrowed myth

to make it tell their own tale

What a tight script

no wiggle room

He did as he was told

and when the land was dry once more

he plants vines

tends his crop

ferments the harvest.

It takes the edge off

I wondered how Noah must have felt, shoe horned into an existing tale, replacing Utpanishtim as the person who builds an ark and saves humanity. Afterwards he apparently, according to the Bible, he was the first wine maker.

Here's an old song by Moving Hearts that I think I've posted before.

Until next time.