How are the gods characterized in this passage? What is the gods’ attitude toward mortals?
Utnapishtim said, “There is no permanence. Do we build a house to stand forever, do we seal a contract to hold for all time? Do brothers divide an inheritance to keep forever, does the flood-time of rivers endure? It is only the nymph of the dragon-fly who sheds her larva and sees the sun in his glory. From the days of old there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death. What is there between the master and the servant when both have fulfilled

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How are the gods characterized in this passage?  What is the gods’ attitude toward mortals?
Utnapishtim said, “There is no permanence.  Do we build a house to stand forever, do we seal a contract to hold for all time?  Do brothers divide an inheritance to keep forever, does the flood-time of rivers endure?  It is only the nymph of the dragon-fly who sheds her larva and sees the sun in his glory.  From the days of old there is no permanence.  The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death.  What is there between the master and the servant when both have fulfilled