During the past several days of reading the Rubaiyat and Manners of Kings, I have come to understand several aspects of the Persian life and their life style.  The Persians are monotheistic and believe in one god, in who they call Allah who judges the good deeds of the people.  They lived their lives by showing mercy for others and taking caring for one another.  They lived and followed the golden rule to treat others the way you would want to be treated.  The Persians would live life to the fullest because they never knew when their time was to come to an end.  "The leaves of life keep falling one by one."

EL FLOOD

     The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Bible, two origins of where we read about a destructive flood, each tell about a story in which most of humanity was killed besides a single family that built an arc.  Both are similar possibly because there actually was an enormous amount of water the engulfed the land in which humanty roamed.  These are two totally different selections of work so the only thing that links them together is the significance of the flood taking place.  Although Gilgamesh was written before the Bible, there is no possible way the writers of the Bible copied the story from the epic because the Bible writters were divinely inspired by God to write.