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All about Gilgamesh
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More about Gilgamesh
100
She said, "Why should you be chosen as the one they blame?... I might persuade my father... to relent if you marry me."
Ishtar
100
The location of Enkidu and Gilgamesh's only quest.
Cedar Forest
100
G. seeks Utanapishtim for this reason.
To achieve everlasting life / To be immortal / To bring Enkidu back to life
100
She interprets Gilgamesh’s dreams about Enkidu. (Name and relation)
Ninsun, his mother
100
G. wore these in his grief
Animal pelts/hide
200
"Monstrous in his contortion, he aroused [Enkidu and Gilgamesh] almost to pity."
Humbaba
200
City-state ruled by Gilgamesh
Uruk
200
G. ultimately uses this weapon to kill Humbaba.
ax
200
Then she took pity on G. and let him enter and lie down and rest. She gave him her bed to fall into and sleep.
Siduri
200
G. is 1/3 this...
Human / mortal
300
The god whom Gilgamesh and his mother consistently worship throughout the story.
Shamash
300
He is the boatman who takes Gilgamesh to Utnapishtim (watch the spelling!)
Urshanabi
300
This is G.'s intention to fight Humbaba.
To prove his power/strength
300
She said, "I will lead you to Uruk / Where you belong, to the Temple of Anu / Where Gilgamesh rules over his people." (Name, please.)
Sham-hat
300
G. slept for this many days when he went to see Utnapishtim.
Seven
400
Besides Humbaba, this god is in charge of the Cedar Forest.
Enlil
400
Shamash repeatedly referred to him as "innocent."
Enkidu
400
G. walks through this in total darkness on his way to Utnapishtim.
The Road of the Sun (p. 59)
400
She said, "I will send him something he would never wish to dream... A drought that nothing will relieve."
Ishtar
400
G.'s birthright
To sleep with virgin bride's before their wedding day
500
Ishtar asked her father to send this as Gilgamesh's punishment in Chapter 2.
Bull of Heaven
500
He said to Gilgamesh, "You have slept for seven days... How will you bear eternal life?" (Watch your spelling!)
Utnapishtim
500
In addition to the ax, name ONE other weapon G. brought to his encounter with Humbaba.
Bow & Arrow // Sword
500
She said to her husband: "Touch him again and wake him so he can return in peace to his home. She had learned to read her husband's moods." (No name is available...)
Utnapishtim's wife
500
Urshanabi laughed at G. when he did this...
Smashed/broke/shattered the stones that would lead him to Utnapishtim
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