Gilgamesh
The Gilgamesh myth touches people even after so many centuries because it is about issues that touch all people in all times. These issues are the anguish of loss and death for all human beings. Myths reflect our will to understand what we cannot understand, and reconcile us to mortality. The earliest know Gilgamesh texts came from Sumer. The Sumerians were the first literate people of Mesopotamia, and their literature was preserved on clay tablets. On some of these tablets were stories specifically about Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Gilgamesh’s father is mortal and his mother is a goddess. Being part mortal, Gilgamesh must die eventually, which he discovers and accepts during the course of the myth. He is a bad ruler, who sleeps with all the women and takes away children from their families. His people ask the Gods for help, so the goddess Aruru creates Enkidu who will be almost Giglamesh’s equal. Enkidu gets created in the woods and is covered with shaggy hair. He eats grass and water with the animals. A trapper who sees Enkidu is frightened, so he goes back and asks his father what he should do because Enkidu is freeing the animals from the traps. The father advises the trapper to go to
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Approximate Word count = 1944
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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