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Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh. Gilgames h One of the oldest stories in the world. Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven. Gilgamesh and bull, lion and god. THE VERY SQUASHED VERSION OF The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Gilgamesh

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  1. Gilgamesh Gilgamesh One of the oldest stories in the world

  2. Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven

  3. Gilgamesh and bull, lion and god

  4. THE VERY SQUASHED VERSION OFThe Epic of Gilgamesh The people of Uruk ask Anu the protector-god to make a match for Gilgamesh their mighty, feared, king. Aruru makes the wild man Enkidu from clay, he is tamed by sex with the harlot Shamhat, and confronts Gilgamesh as he tries to rape a bride. They fight and then become beloved friends. Together they kill the giant Humbaba and steal a tree from his Cedar Forest. Gilgamesh rejects the advances of Princess Ishtar, who gets the Bull of Heaven sent to destroy him. Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the Bull, for which the gods make Enkidu die after a terrifying vision of the death-world of dust. Grief-stricken, Gilgamesh travels past the scorpion-beings and the jeweled garden, is helped by the innkeeper Siduri and the boatman Urshanabi to cross the Waters of Death and reach Utanapishtim the immortal, who explains that he and his wife were given immortality by the god Enlil after having built a huge boat to evade the gods' plan to drown all humans. Proving himself unworthy of immortality by failing to even stay awake while seven days of loaves are baked, Gilgamesh is told to swim into Apsu the underground ocean to pluck the secret magic thornbush of everlasting life. Unfortunately, a snake steals it as Gilgamesh travels home.

  5. Gilgamesh wanted to be immortal – not liable or subject to death a person of enduring fame Did he succeed?

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