The inspiration for the Ark?

[ex-varies107.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen anything like this posted here before. But I haven't looked back too far, so it might have. D: Sorry if it has.

While doing an image search, I came across this image and commented that it kinda looked a lot like Noah's Ark from D.Gray-man.

Then I did a little more research, and what I found surprised me.

It was an ark. And probably the ark Hoshino-sensei got her inspiration from. It's known as Utnapishtim's Ark, and it comes from "The Epic of Gilgamesh."

Here's a page I found that describes Utnapishtim's Ark and compares it to Noah's Ark, if you'd like to read more on it.

Comments

[animalboything.livejournal.com]

they did a really, REALLY good show on TV about it. I'll try to see if I can track it down for you. I never put two and two together though - good sleuthing!

[ex-varies107.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome! 8D And thank you!

[strawberrypenis.livejournal.com]

wow that's very interesting, I wouldn't have thought of an actual ark that's cubicle (excluding DGM), Hoshino-sensei might have very well gotten this idea from Utnapishtim's ark. She probably read about it in the past, though I am glad she did because can you imagine a ship as an ark in DGM? I can't, thank you for sharing this it is very useful.

[ex-varies107.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree! I like Hoshino-sensei's concept a lot better than a boring ship.

[kariavalon.livejournal.com]

Ditto~ this information sure is interesting and something I probably wouldn't have tried researching on~ I'll look into it tomorrow~ *needs to sleep to go to school tomorrow eee...*

Thanks for posting the discovery~ =)

[wiccat.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's neat. And here I always thought the Ark kinda looked like the All-Spark from Transformers XD

[bsbartgurl.livejournal.com]

ooo now i'm very impressed with sensei! I read parts of that epic once but i don't remember the ark, she did some good research to find that. At least we know she doesn't just play video games.

[nagaina-ryuuoh.livejournal.com]

There's some fairly interesting meta on the Ark in Wikipedia's Tower of Babel entry, too:

Some Kabbalistic mystics provide intriguing and unusual descriptions of the Tower of Babel. According to Menachem Tsioni, an Italian Torah commentator of 15th century, the Tower was a functional flying craft, empowered by some powerful magic or technology [4]; the device was originally intended for holy purposes, but was later misused in order to gain control over the whole world. Isaac of Acre wrote that the Tower builders had reached, or at least planned to reach the distance of 2,360,000,000 parsas or 9-10 billion kilometers above the Earth surface, which is about the radius of the Solar System, including most Trans-Neptunian objects. [5]. Similar accounts are also found in the writing of Jonathan Eybeschutz and the ancient book Brith Menuchah [6], according to which the builders of the Tower planned to equip it with some shield technology ("shielding wings") and powerful weapons. Many Kabbalists believed that the ancient peoples possessed magic knowledge of the Nephilim, which allowed them to construct such powerful devices. Moreover, according to some commentaries, some Talmudic sages possessed a manual for building such a flying tower.

These accounts coincide with some of Zecharia Sitchin's speculations and the ufological theories concerning the ancient Indian vimanas[citation needed]. According to another mysterious Kabbalistic account, one third of the Tower builders were punished by turning into various semi-demonic creatures and banished into three parallel dimensions, inhabited now by their descendants [7].

The tower inside the transdimensional space of the cube is, for all practical intents and purposes identical to depictions of the Tower of Babel.

[tyne.livejournal.com]

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE~