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Gilgamesh:
Babylonian Epic
King of Uruk
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“Lordly in appearance, he walks out in front, the leader, casts a mighty net, protector of his people”
“It was he who crossed the Ocean the vast seas, to the rising sun, who explored the world regions, two-thirds of him is god, one-third of him is human”
Gilgamesh and Endiku
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Humbaba the Terrible
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spurns Ishtar
ONLY THEN
does Anu send
Bull of Heaven
“See here now, I will recite the list of
your lovers. Tammuz, the lover of your
early youth, for him you have ordained
lamentations year upon year. You loved
the stallion, famed in battle, yet you
ordained for him the whip, the goad, and
the lash”
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The hero
experiences
Death
Gilgamesh and Siduri
Utnapishtim-flood survivor
Charon and
River Styx
Near Eastern plant of
immortality
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