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Gilgamesh - Essay

Gilgamesh

The story of Gilamesh seems to relate to stories of the bible in some instances, but in others it seems like some great writers were at work when they created this story. For instance when I read the book The line ", two-thirds god and one-third human, is the great-est king on earth and the strongest super-human that ever existed", sound similar to Jesus Christ. It makes me wander which one of these stories is true the bible or . I have summarized the book to point out which part to me is biblically related.
, two-thirds god and one-third human, is the great-est king on earth and the
Strongest super-human that ever existed; however, he is young and oppresses his people harshly. The ...

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the temple harlots, Shamhat, with him to the forest; 1 when she sees Enkidu, she is to offer herself sexually to the wild man. If he submits to her, the trapper says, he will lose his strength and his wildness. Shamhat meets Enkidu at the watering-hole where all the wild animals gather; she Offers herself to him and he submits, instantly losing his strength and wildness, but he gains understanding and knowledge. He laments for his lost state, but the har-lot offers to take him into the city where all the joys of civilization shine in their re-splendence; she offers to show him , the only man worthy of Enkidu's friendship.
meanwhile has two dreams; in the first a meteorite falls to earth which is so great that can neither lift it nor turn it. The people gather and celebrate around the meteorite, and embraces it as he would a wife, but his mother, the goddess Rimat-Ninsun, forces him to compete with the meteorite. In the second, dreams that an axe appears at his door, so great that ...

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Added: 12/5/2008 11:54:12 PM
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