HOW GILGAMESH AND ENKIDU MEET, FIGHT, THEN BECOME FRIENDS AND GO ON A JOURNEY
PREPARING TO GO ON A JOURNEY
THE PERFECT MAN, GILGAMESH, KING OF URUK. TWO THIRDS GOD AND ONE THIRD MAN. BEAUTY, COURAGE AND STRENGTH WERE THE THREE QUALITIES HE WAS GIVEN WHEN HE WAS CREATED. ENKIDU, WITH HAIR THAT WAS LONG AND MATTER. HE WAS ALSO, GILGAMESH'S ENEMY.
THE JOURNEY TO CEDAR FOREST
WHEN ENKIDU ARRIVED IN URUK, THE TOWNSPEOPLE WERE WHISPERING THINGS ABOUT HOW HE IS THE ONLY WILD MAN THAT COULD STOP GILGAMESH. LATER, ENKIDU AND GILGAMESH FIGHT, THEN BECOME FRIENDS TO DEFEAT ANOTHER MONSTER.
BATTLE WITH HUMBABA THE MONSTER
AS GILGAMESH AND ENKIDU PREPARED TO LEAVE ON THEIR JOURNEY TO CEDAR FOREST, GILGAMESH SAYS A FEW WORDS TO HIS MOTHER, NINSUN. NINSUN THEN TOOK IN ENKIDU AS HER SON IN HOPES THAT HE WOULD BRING GILGAMESH BACK TO HER AFTER THEIR BATTLE.
GILGAMESH, ISHTAR, AND THE BULL OF HEAVEN
THE TWO BROTHERS SET OUT FOR CEDAR FOREST ATOP MOUNT LEBANON. THEY TRAVELED FIFTY LEAGUES A DAY, RESTING ONLY DURING NIGHTFALL. ENKIDU INTERPERETS THESE DREAMS EVERY NIGHT, SAYING SHAMASH WILL PROTECT THEM, AND THEY SHALL DEFEAT HUMBABA.
THE CEDAR FOREST WAS JUST AHEAD OF THEM, VERY CALM AND COOL BEFORE THE STORM THAT WAS ON ITS WAY. HUMBABA TRIED MANY WAYS TO GET GILGAMESH TO FOLD. ENKIDU CONVINCED GILGAMESH NOT TO LISTEN, WHICH FOLLOWS IN GILGAMESH STRIKING HUMBABAS HEAD.
GILGAMESH AND ENKIDU RETURNED, TRIUMPHANT, TO URUK. A GODDESS ISHTAR WAS STUNNED BY GILGAMESH'S BEAUTY, SO SHE BEGGED HIM TO BE HER BRIDEGROOM. GILGAMESH DECLINED, WHICH INVOLVES ISHTAR GOING TO HEAVE TO COMPLAIN TO HER FATHER ANU THAT GILGAMESH INSULTED HER.
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