Epic of Gilgamesh: The Bull of Heaven
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- Did you try to seduce him?
- Father, Gilgamesh slandered me!!!
- "I want to kill that liar Gilgamesh and destroy his palace". "If you say no, I will smash the gates of the underworld and a million famished ghouls will ascend to devour the living, and the living will be outnumbered by the dead". Please give me the Bull of Heaven.
- If do this Uruk will have famine for seven long years. Have you provided the people with harvest?
- HE WILL PAY!!!!
- Ishtar goes up to heaven exploding with fury. After a not-so-friendly interaction with Gilgamesh. She goes to consult with her father and mother God Anu and Goddess Antu. She wants to seek revenge on Gilgamesh.
- What is the source of this madness?
- There's poo all over me
- Ishtar continues to consult with her parents Anu and Antu. She begins to beg. Ishtar is really adamant about revenge on Gilgamesh, so adamant in fact that she threatens her father's people.
- Hold on brother, I'm coming to help.
- Ishtar gets her to wish, and her father Anu gives Ishtar the Bull of Heaven. Ishtar led the Bull down to the Earth. It entered and bellowed, the whole land shook, the streams and marshes dried up, the Euphrates water level dropped by ten feet. An then it snorted and the earth cracked open.
- Who is the most handsomest? Who is the most bravest?
- You are the best Gilgamesh!!!
- The Earth cracked open and two hundred warriors fell in and died. When it snorted a third time, Enkidu fell in. up to his waist he jumped out.
- Enkidu grabbed the bull by the horns, it spat in Enkidu's face, it lifted its tail, and spewed dung all over him. Gilgamesh rushed in and shouted, " Dear friend, keep fighting, together we are sure to win". Enkidu circled the bull. seized it by the tail and set his foot. on its haunch, then Gilgamesh skillfully killed the bull, like a butcher, killed the Bull.
- After the Bull of Heaven was killed, Gilgamesh and Enkidu ripped out its heart and they offered it to Shamash. Ishtar was overheard by Enkidu, he heard her slandering and through a thigh of the Bull at her. Then Gilgamesh and Enkidu rode through town on chariot, the people shouted and cheered.
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