Sure, using the same lines multiple times makes it easier to remember, and the line is found in more than one text. I just mean there’s a pattern of coincidences, and Gilgamesh bringing back wisdom from “before the Flood” that was lost from the same person that received those instructions is a big one. It’s surely somewhere between “the same people wrote both texts and simply reused similar lines between them for style” and “multiple texts reference each other like they’re building a big ancient MCU where you need to watch the backlog of 20 previous movies to fully understand the last Avengers: Gilgameshday”.
Because they totally did that a lot. Poems pick up straight from the end of other poems. Hell, specifically for the Sumerian ones, they didn’t know how to start a story so a lot of them begin with: " so you know, the wind god split the mountain of heaven and earth, that was cool. Anyway, Enmerkar once…" and another text starts with “after heaven and earth were separated, Kur abducted Inanna. So anyway, here’s Lugalbanda’s story…” followed by “Kur is now defeated so it’s all good. Now, about the Anzu bird…” and we have a near complete Sumerian Genesis likethat.
Sure, using the same lines multiple times makes it easier to remember, and the line is found in more than one text. I just mean there’s a pattern of coincidences, and Gilgamesh bringing back wisdom from “before the Flood” that was lost from the same person that received those instructions is a big one. It’s surely somewhere between “the same people wrote both texts and simply reused similar lines between them for style” and “multiple texts reference each other like they’re building a big ancient MCU where you need to watch the backlog of 20 previous movies to fully understand the last Avengers: Gilgameshday”.
Because they totally did that a lot. Poems pick up straight from the end of other poems. Hell, specifically for the Sumerian ones, they didn’t know how to start a story so a lot of them begin with: " so you know, the wind god split the mountain of heaven and earth, that was cool. Anyway, Enmerkar once…" and another text starts with “after heaven and earth were separated, Kur abducted Inanna. So anyway, here’s Lugalbanda’s story…” followed by “Kur is now defeated so it’s all good. Now, about the Anzu bird…” and we have a near complete Sumerian Genesis likethat.