The Epic of Gilgamesh

The epic's prelude to an epic offers a general introduction to the Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, which are two-thirds god and one third man. He built magnificent ziggurats, or temple tower, surrounded his city with high walls, and put his gardens and fields. He was physically beautiful, very strong and very wise. Although Gilgamesh was a divine body and soul, he became a kingdom as a cruel despot. He scoffed at his subjects, raping any woman who was struck by his imagination, whether she was the wife of one of its soldiers or daughter of a nobleman. He fulfilled his construction projects with forced labor, and his exhausted subjects groaned under its yoke.

“You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping.” (Dafna Sharon, pp 25)

The gods heard the requests of his subjects, and Gilgamesh decided to keep in check, creating a wild man named Enkidu who, as magnificent as Gilgamesh. Enkidu was a great friend of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh and his heart was broken when Enkidu died from the disease caused the gods. Gilgamesh then went to the edge of the world and learned about the days before the flood, and other secrets of the gods, and he wrote them on stone tablets.

The epic starts with Enkidu. He lives with animals, suck, grazing in the meadows, and drink at the place of watering. A hunter found him and sends a temple prostitute in the wilderness to tame it. At that time, people thought of women and sex calming force that could tame the wild men like Enkidu to bring them into the civilized world. When Enkidu sleeps with a woman, the animals reject him because he is ...