An identical four-beat sequence: landing → burnt offering → the deity smells the smoke and is moved → vow of never-again sealed by a physical token of remembrance (a string of sky-blue lapis at the goddess's throat; a bow of color in the cloud). The smelling detail is near-verbatim across languages — the deity is reached through the nose.
First act after landing is a mountaintop sacrifice with incense (reeds, cedar, myrtle): 'The gods smelled the savor, the gods smelled the sweet savor, and collected like flies over a (sheep) sacrifice.' Immediately after, Beletili raises her jewels: 'as surely as I shall not forget this lapis lazuli around my neck, may I be mindful of these days, and never forget them!'
Noah builds an altar and offers burnt offerings; 'the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake' — then fixes a permanent visible token: 'I do set my bow in the cloud... and I will remember my covenant.'
Both quotes verified verbatim above (Kovacs XI ~155–165; KJV 8:21, 9:13–16). The Atrahasis version adds the motive the flies-image encodes: the gods are starving because the flood ended their offerings — 'the hungry gods smell the fragrance and gather like flies over the offering' (Dalley, Tablet III).
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The same three-stage avian reconnaissance protocol from a grounded vessel, with overlapping species (dove, raven) and the identical inferential logic: the bird that does not come back is the good news.
In both, heaven never announces the flood openly.
Same skeleton with no shared geography: humanity's crime is an affront to the senior god's comfort or dignity, a council formalizes extermination, the killing is halted mid-course by subversion within the pantheon itself, a remnant survives, and the wearied god afterward binds or removes himself.
The identical test, posed and failed: the world-encircling sea-serpent hooked from a small boat, drawn up just far enough for a face-to-face look, and then lost.