When it comes time for God to speak to Mankind, He is very hard to hear. For one thing, He places His messages in the hands of mere humans. Sometimes He comes in person, but in ages without good transportation systems, He really doesn't get around all that well.
So, pitiful human beings, faced with the nearly incomprehensible message from Almighty God, write it as they see it ~ and the result is a miniscule portion of the message gets through to be passed on elsewhere.
Still, anything is better than nothing ~ and God's message, in whatever form, however limited it might be, is an Amnesty from Oblivion for the human beings who get the message, and grasp it to whatever degree they are capable given their time in history, and their position in that time.
That's a little sermon based on my understanding that way beyond creating the Heavens and the Earth, all good is authored by God.
In this way Sargon's exemplary tale, first written down by the Sumerians, and known for thousands of years before by their ancestors, becomes an exemplary tale for God's own prophet on a different river in a different, and later, civilization.
I really don't quite understand this need to claim that Satan was the primary influence on the Sumerians.
Well, I take the bible pretty literally and believe that the orginal writings were inspired by God.
I think that God, when he chooses to reveal himself, is pretty unmistakeable, at least according to biblical accounts.
I basically agree with your thesis that God hears prayer readily, although I would qualify that by saying that he only hears the prayers of the righteous. I would agree that it's rare today for God to reveal himself so powerfully, but today i think he primarily uses scripture to speak to us.
He places his messages in the Word. He's very easy to hear through his word.
"Sargon's exemplary tale first written down by the Sumerians, and known for thousands of years before by their ancestors"
Is written nowhere. Thousands of years of ancestors? Where did they come from? How did they survive the flood?
Have you heard that it was Astrology which guided the Wisemen to the birth of Jesus, because Astrology originally pointed humankind toward the coming of God in flesh? [He is Leo, the Lion of Judah don'tchaknow.]