Enkidu

This semester, Fall 2015, is the end of my Humanities Honour Program. It has been a meaningful two years with Professor Lindahl and Professor Movassat. In this class, I have learned a lot of knowledge on the topics humanities. Humanities are very important because they had a great impact on today’s society. William Lund once said that “We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future.” Without the knowledge of humanities, we won 't be able to communicate…

be great friends. She has a small part in the story; however, it has a great impact on Gilgamesh’s outcome with Enkidu. He knows that he and Enkidu are destined to be friends, it is his fate. Another goddess that affects Gilgamesh, not as a friend, but as an obstacle on his path to greatness is Ishtar. Ishtar is the goddess of love, war, and fertility. After seeing Gilgamesh and Enkidu fight and kill Humbaba, Ishtar decides that she wants Gilgamesh as her husband. Gilgamesh refuses Ishtar’s…

The Epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh was the very first short story to be written down. Unlike many other ancient texts, the story of the Assyrian king Gilgamesh remained hidden for a while until it was rediscovered in 1853. It is a large compilation of early heroic tales that was collected and made one around 2000 BC by an unknown Babylonian scribe. It was found written on clay tablets in Akkad. The fullest version of Gilgamesh was said to be about three thousand lines, written on…

have more of a mortal life. In the binging of the epic Enkidu, Gilgamesh’s friend who is part human and wild animal, lives with the animals and is considered one of them. A hunter sees Enkidu and sends a temple prostitute to him in order to “tame” him. After he sleeps with the woman the animals disown him. Both Adam and Enkidu were influenced by women, both men lost something very valuable because of the women. Many details of the story about Enkidu in the Epic of Gilgamesh was influenced by the…

enticement. In this paper The first female character that impacts a man is the prostitute. She is left at the spring by the seeker so she can sleep with Enkidu and make all the animals leave him. As indicated by the story, Enkidu acts like a animal. In any case he is attracted to the prostitute. She is clever and knows the way of the man. She tells Enkidu he is no more an animal, he resembles a god, as Gilgemesh. She…

Their journeys both lead them through initiation to higher truths and maturity with help from outside themselves. The Gods come together to ask Aruru for assistance with Gilgamesh as he has grown so strong, prideful and purely destructive. They create Enkidu, the wild man from the steppe, to tame Gilgamesh. Gawain’s journey is a result of Morgan Le Fay’s attempt to frighten Guinevere to death by the presence of the Green Knight. Gawain learns truths about the difficulty of human nature and…

The American scholar Joseph Campbell explains that every hero on a quest goes through specific stages. “Ancient myths were designed to put the minds, mental system into accord with this body system….to harmonize” (Campbell). The mind can want things the body does not want. In accord with the way nature dicatates, Well, because that’s what’s worth writing about. I mean, even in popular novel writing, you see, these the main character is the hero or heroine, that is to say, someone who has found…

One that is natural such as the creation of Enkidu. Although divinely created he represented the natural world around them as he was first living with the animals in the wild. Another part we see in the spiritual realms are those concerning the Bull of Heaven to the pursuit of eternal life. Gilgamesh…

Even though he lost the innocence of his mortality when he became civilized, Enkidu gains knowledge of life. He gains human connections, knowledge of man, and an understanding of his own mortality. Finally, Enkidu can appreciate that life is fleeting yet beautiful. If human life lasted forever, it would arguably lose its beauty. Beauty is truth. And the truth is often flawed and sometimes even…

The Sumerian epic poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by Andrew George, is about a man and his friend going on adventures together until tragedy occurs and one dies while the other is left mourning and going on an adventure no mortal man has gone before. There are several themes throughout this epic that people can relate to. One of these themes is life and death. The Sumerians that created this story try to depict their views of mortality and how mortality can affect people and make them…