Gilgamesh

A detailed Summary of Gilgamesh


Gilgamesh is an epic story about the "king" that resides in all of us both as benefactor and destroyer. He was the king of Uruk. It is a story of a person who is feared and honored. A person who loves and hates. A person who wins and loses. A person who loves life.

Gilgamesh, two-thirds god and one-third human, is the greatest King on earth and the strongest super-human that ever existed; however, he is young and oppresses his people harsly. The people call out to the sky god Anu, the chief god of the city, to help them. In response, Anu creates a wild man, Ekidu, out in the harsh and wild forests surrounding Gilgamesh's lands. This brute, Enkidu has the strength of dozens of wild animals; he is to serve as the subhuman rival to the superhuman Gilgamesh.

Gilgamesh was checking trapes in the forest, and discovers Enkidu running naked with the wild animals. He rushed to his father with the news, and he advises him to go into the city and take one of the temple harlots, Shamhat. When s


Another similarity was the "Flood". Ea whispered these words from a dream; "Oman of Shurrupak, son of Ubara-Tutu; tear down your house and build a boat, and abandon possessions and look for life, despice worldly goods and save your soul alive" (pg 41). Ea obeyed, he loaded all that he had, his family, his kin, the beast of the field both wild and tame and all the craftsmen. The storm came down just as it was ordained. It rained for seven days and seven nights, the winds blew, torrent and tempest. On the seventh day dawned the storm subsided, the sea grew calm, the flood was stilled. His boat came to rest on the top of Mount Nimush. On the seventh day Ea, loosed a dove, she flew away, but finding no resting place she returned. The he loosed a swallow, she flew away but finding no resting place, she returned. He loosed a raven, she saw that the water had retreated, she ate, she flew around, she cawed, and she did not come back.

he see Enkidu, she was to offer herself sexually to the wild man. If he submits to her, the t

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