Comparing Flood Myths

The Haida Flood & The Epic of Gilgamesh
Information from: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html#Innuit

We are able to compare The Haida Flood Myth to The Epic of Gilgamesh in many ways.  In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian hero traveled the world to search how to cheat death. On his journey he met an old man named Utnapishtim who told him about a flood from centuries ago.
In The Haida Flood Myth there was a strange who woman was sitting by the seashore.  She kept on trying to move away as the tides rose higher and higher so she would not drown. Also, in The Epic of Gilgamesh, the gods were angry at mankind so they sent a flood to destroy it. Gilgamesh built a boat for his family and “the seed of all living things”. When the rains subsided the boat had landed on a mountain and he was ok. In the Haida Flood Myth, the tides kept on rising but although the tide covered the entire island, the villagers were also saved because of the rafts that they had to help them. In both of these stories the people were unharmed even though they were in dire situations from the water.