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	Gilgamesh Summary
		Gilgamesh, as the king, claims the right to have sexual intercourse first with every new bride on the day of her wedding; as Enkidu enters the city, Gilgamesh is about to claim that right.
		Gilgamesh's mother laments her son's fate in a prayer to the sun-god, Shamash, asking that god why he put a restless heart in the breast of her son.
		Gilgamesh approaches Urshanabi with great arrogance and violence and in the process destroys the "stone things" that are somehow critical for the journey to Utnapishtim.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/MESO/GILG.HTM (3823 words)

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		Gilgamesh is a bad ruler; he sleeps with all the women and takes away children from their families.
		Naturally, since Gilgamesh is part divine and part human, while Enkidu is part human and part animal, the sacrifice, the judgment falls on Enkidu, who sickens and dies, at first cursing the harlot who led him to civilization, Gilgamesh and death, but then blessing her for the joy of friendship with Gilgamesh.
		Gilgamesh is distraught with grief and denial of death.
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/eng251/gilgameshstudy.htm (2772 words)

	Gilgamesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gilgamesh, according to the Sumerian king list, was the fifth king of Uruk (Early Dynastic II, first dynasty of Uruk), the son of Lugalbanda, ruling circa 2650 BCE.
		In Mesopotamian mythology Gilgamesh is credited to have been a demi-god of superhuman strength, a mythological equivalent to Hercules, who built a great wall in Iraq to defend his people from outer harm.
		Historical or not, Gilgamesh became a legendary protagonist in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gilgamesh (665 words)

	Epic of Gilgamesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythologized hero-king Gilgamesh, thought to be a ruler of the 3rd millennium BC, were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem long afterward, with the most complete version extant today preserved on eleven clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
		Gilgamesh of Uruk, the greatest king on earth, two-thirds god and one-third human, is the strongest super-human who ever existed.
		Gilgamesh sets out to avoid Enkidu's fate and makes a perilous journey to visit Utnapishtim and his wife, the only humans to have survived the Great Flood who were granted immortality by the gods, in the hope that he too can attain immortality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh (1512 words)

	Gilgamesh
		Gilgamesh was experiencing dreams that were worrying him, however Enkidu believed that they foretold victory - and indeed, as soon as the first cedars were felled, the great Humbaba was aroused and duly vanquished by the equal power of Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
		Gilgamesh was not having any of this, and reminded Ishtar of how unfaithful she had been to a whole list of previous lovers.
		Gilgamesh was carried across by the boatman Urshanabi, to whom he had to introduce himself in much the same way as he did with Siduri; and likewise on meeting Utnapishtim.
	www.crock11.freeserve.co.uk /gilgamesh.htm (1768 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Gilgamesh
		Gilgamesh's response to the death of his friend is sublime in its excess: After watching over the corpse for seven days and nights, he finally dresses the lifeless body for burial "as one veils the bride" and orders that a statue of precious metals be raised in the likeness of Enkidu.
		Gilgamesh confesses to everyone he meets that "since [Enkidu] went, my life is nothing." His search proves fruitless, however, and he returns to his kingly city where he reputedly composes the epic of his own adventures and carves them on the wall of the temple.
		Gilgamesh's story is particularly open to Jungian interpretation: By wrestling with and finally embracing the wild man Enkidu, Gilgamesh is able to contain his own dangerously lawless heterosexual impulses and channel his superhuman energies in heroic endeavors, his love for Enkidu allowing him a psychological completeness unavailable in any other relationship.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/gilgamesh.html (866 words)

	Gilgamesh
		Gilgamesh is the son of Ninsun, a comparatively obscure goddess who had a palace-temple in Uruk.
		Gilgamesh is fifth on the King-List and reigned in Uruk around 2700 BCE (or some hundred years or so later) for 126 years (his son reigned a mere 30 years).
		The Epic of Gilgamesh was preserved on clay tablets which were deciphered in the last century.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/g/gilgamesh.html (238 words)

	Gilgamesh
		During this search, Gilgamesh is told the story about the great flood, a story that may later have informed Biblical writers as they developed the narrative about Noah and the deluge.
		Gilgamesh is praised as a ruler of great knowledge, two-thirds god and one-third man. He is presented as the strongest king and human ever to have lived, we still hear that he oppresses his people harshly.
		Gilgamesh suggests that the two new friends embark on an adventure, travelling to Iran to cut down all the cedar trees.
	i-cias.com /e.o/gilgamesh.htm (1369 words)

	Epic of Gilgamesh - humbaba and ishtar the god
		Ishtar is frustrated with Gilgamesh, so she asks her father Anu to send the Bull of Heaven to punish Gilgamesh, so she asks her father Anu to send the Bull of Heaven descended from above Gilgamesh and Enkidu immediately began to fight.
		She informs Gilgamesh that the journey is very dangerous and again tells him that no man has ever made the journey.
		Gilgamesh returns home knowing that every man must some day be taken from the natural world, and experience the spirits of afterlife.
	www.netpaths.net /gilgamesh/enkandgil.html (748 words)

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		Gilgamesh, as the king, claims the right to have sexual intercourse first with every new bride on the day of her wedding; as Enkidu enters the city, Gilgamesh is about to claim that right.
		Gilgamesh's mother laments her son's fate in a prayer to the sun-god, Shamash, asking that god why he put a restless heart in the breast of her son.
		Gilgamesh is torn apart by the death of his friend, and utters a long lament, ordering all of creation to never fall silent in mourning his dead friend.
	ragz-international.com /gilgamesh.htm (3138 words)

	gilnotes.HTML
		Gilgamesh is also type of hero that goes on the Quest, where a person leaves his home, meets magic helpers, does great deeds and then returns home with benefits to his community (usually) and new status.
		The journey of Gilgamesh in order to kill a monster is the archetypal journey of the Hero to fight monsters and restore the world, or at least bring back a boon to his community.
		One can argue that, when Gilgamesh strips off his kingly attire and starts wandering around in the wastelands at the edge of the world, he has lost his identity; he is for all practical purposes no longer King Gilgamesh, just as Odysseus, when he is wandering far from Ithaca, is no longer king.
	www.chss.montclair.edu /classics/gilnotes.HTML (4438 words)

	EAWC Essay: Storytelling, the Meaning of Life, and The Epic of Gilgamesh
		We know they celebrated a king named Gilgamesh; we know they believed in many gods; we know they were self-conscious of their own cultivation of the natural world; and we know they were literate.
		When Enkidu tells Gilgamesh his dream of the Underworld, Gilgamesh responds, "we must treasure the dream whatever the terror; for the dream has shown that misery comes at last to the healthy man, the end of life is sorrow" (93).
		While Gilgamesh himself has lost the ability to live forever, or the opportunity to pass on this ability to the men of Uruk, it is enough that the snake recalls for us, in its sloughing of its skin, nature's pattern of regeneration.
	eawc.evansville.edu /essays/brown.htm (2796 words)

	The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ
		Gilgamesh on Ishtar's behalf, if she has made sure that the people of Uruk are properly provisioned for seven years.
		Gilgamesh and Enkidu defeat the creature, but Enkidu falls ill and dies, presumably because the gods are unhappy that he helped kill Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven.
		He tells Gilgamesh of the dead which he has seen there, of those who are cared for and those who aren't, indicating the sort of judgment and ritual associated with the afterlife and death.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/assyrbabyl-faq.html (7630 words)

	The Epic Of Gilgamesh
		Gilgamesh the king is about to celebrate marriage with the Queen of Love, and he still demands to be first with the bride, the king to be first and the husband to follow, for that was ordained by the gods from his birth, from the time the umbilical cord was cut.
		Gilgamesh took the axe, he slung the quiver from his -shoulder, and the bow of Anshan, and buckled the sword to his belt; and so they were armed and ready for the journey.
		Gilgamesh listened to the word of his companion, he took the axe in his hand, he drew the sword from his belt, and he struck Humbaba with a thrust of the sword to the neck, and Enkidu his comrade struck the second blow.
	www.aina.org /books/eog/eog.htm (16762 words)

	gilgamesh.html
		Gilgamesh is presented as part god, part man, that is a legendary king from the distant past.
		Page 62 makes it clear that Gilgamesh was ruler, that is, that there was a king of some sort, and it reveals something about the organization of society (it speaks of warriors, and nobles).
		Is Gilgamesh excessive in his behavior, or is he only acting as would be expected of a hero (and a king)?
	www.utexas.edu /courses/clubmed/gilgamsh.html (500 words)

	Epic of Gilgamesh - History for Kids!
		Gilgamesh thinks this is interesting, so he sets a trap for Enkidu to get him to come to the city and be his friend.
		Gilgamesh sends a beautiful woman to Enkidu, and when he sees her he kisses her and the kiss works like magic to tame him: he follows her back to the city and becomes civilized.
		Gilgamesh is so cool now that the goddess Ishtar falls in love with him, but when she asks him to be her boyfriend, Gilgamesh says no (and he is pretty rude about it too).
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/westasia/literature/gilgamesh.htm (812 words)

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