Context:

A listener named Mister Hernandez wrote in about the universality of hero epics across cultures. Steve discusses how the Epic of Gilgamesh, from ancient Sumatra/Mesopotamia, is 'Originally an oral epic that was later compiled and written down centuries before any modern religious text. In ancient Acadia, it's a hero's epoch. It has the Great Flood, it has the Garden of Eden, it has an arc.' This was mentioned in the context of discussing common themes in mythology across disparate cultures.