![]() ![]() ![]() 72 Mitchell tr.) because “the people of Uruk cried out to heaven,” and the gods “were touched” (Ibid). And in fact, it was Anu, the king of the sky, heavens, and gods who ordered Aruru, the creator of man, to create Gilgamesh’s “double”, “a man who matches his strength) (P. Enkidu, made from water and clay, is made in order to temper and redirect the energies of the wildly ostentatious Gilgamesh. To the first question, let us first consider the nature of Enkidu and his purpose on earth. B was largely in agreement about what was written and the general historical overview of the text, he had two very important questions to further the conversation: (1) Is it Gilgamesh’s humanity (mortality) which subjects him to moral codes, and therefore (2) are the ancient Sumerian/Babylonian gods subject to morals or simply to force? The final question which will be considered is why exactly is Gilgamesh denied immortality, and what lesson does that lead to him, and us, learning? ![]() B and I had a moment today to reconsider our positions taken during our initial conversation on The Epic of Gilgamesh.
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