Basic Literary patterns in The Flood

The story of the flood clearly shows some of the literary patterns that had been discussed earlier this week. One of the major patterns I saw was A. Labors are assigned to work B. The laborers become weary of the work and rebel against those they are working for C. The gods work out a solution to end the rebellion. 
It was interesting to watch this pattern unfold and to notice the differences between when the lesser gods and when the humans were the laborers. 
One of the major differences is of course in the scale of the rebellion. The lesser Gods went straight to the gate of the head God when they had grown weary of their labor. On the other hand the humans caused clamor, which as we already know from Epic of Creation is grounds for murder at least amongst the peace and quiet loving gods.
Perhaps most interesting was the differences between the resolutions that were reached. Of course the humans were the solution to the rebellion of the lesser gods. Quite a nice resolution when one considers that is basically completely freed the gods from manual labor. The humans on the other hand did not receive quite the same treatment. The gods as I mentioned earlier having been annoyed by their clamor went to their age old solution. First they sent a famine which wipes out a great deal of the population but that doesn't ultimately resolve the problem. Next they send a flood but again internal conflicts amongst the gods thwarts the plan. Finally a solution is reached by granting mortality to all humans. This is an interesting solution as it once again seems to fall into the gods assuming that the best way to end clamor is to have people die. 
All in all it was an interesting look at the chiasms and the early literary patterns of the ancient near east.