Questão 43 - FGV-SP Administração - UNIFICADO 2025/1

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ANOTHER GREAT FLOOD

 

(Historical Note: 1 cubit = 44 centimeters)

 

[1]     Well before the Book of Genesis was written down, a similar story about a great flood was recorded in ancient Mesopotamia, that historical region situated within the Tigris-Euphrates river system. In this earlier account, the gods had grown unhappy with humankind. They had made people out of clay [argila] to labor at building canals and raising crops to save the lesser gods from the drudgery [trabalho penoso]. But humans, headstrong [obstinados, teimosos] and irritating, had caused SO much trouble that the gods, led by Anu, the king of the gods, decided to wash them away by flooding Mesopotamia. However, the lesser god Hea, feeling sorry for the humans, came to a man named Adrakhasis (also "Atrahasis") in his city on the Euphrates River and told him to build a great boat, 600 cubits long and 60 wide, and to fill it with "thy grain [teus grãos], thy furniture, thy goods [bens], they wealth, thy women slaves, thy handmaids [criadas], and the sons of the people, the beasts of the field, and the wild animals of the field." The door was sealed and a great storm began, driven by the gods of wind and rain. It lasted for seven days and nights. When the rain stopped, the people in the boat found a flooded world, with corpses floating on the water like reeds [juncos - um tipo de planta]. The ship came to rest on Mt. Nizir. Adrakhasis sent out a dove [pomba], a sparrow [pardal], and a raven [corvo] to find the land, and when the flood receded, he released all his animals to repopulate the world. He built an altar on the mountain and made a sacrifice to the gods, who all came around and were so impressed that they granted Adrakhasis immortality.

[2]     This story is in cuneiform on Table XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh, written around 2100 BCE ["Before the Common Era," i.e., "Before Christ"].

Adapted from Natural History, February 2024.

As presented in the article, this story of a great flood probably least supports which of the following?