HUMA 1165 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Humbaba, Breastfeeding, Enkidu
16 Sep 2017
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Gilgamesh is the son of a man and goddess who is the king. Gil is very evil and cruel , he exploits the women ( rapes them ), yet he made a ciy called urku and created temples. The god anu creates another human named aruru who creates enkidu who will match gilgamesh and puts him in the woosd. Enkidu grew up with animals but he finds a temple prostitute and has intercourse with her. After the animals had kicked him out , which makes him live with the humans. Enkidu needed a friend so he went to uruk to go face down gilgamesh to ha\ve a contedst of strength but gilgamesh wins and later on they become friends. Continuing in the forest a goddess ishtar fell in love with gilgamesh and asks him to marry him but he ends up rejecting her because lovers leads to bad end.
