I am a hairy, wild man created to be Gilgamesh's equal. I was chosen to die instead of Gilgamesh because I am 100% human.
Who is Enkidu?
100
"It was I who cut down the cedar, I who leveled the forest, I who slew Humbaba and now see what has become of me."
Who is Enkidu?
100
Humbaba guards this
What is the sacred, cedar grove (or forest)?
100
Gilgamesh was King in approximately this year
What is 2750 B.C.?
200
The Sumerian god of the sea
Who is Ea?
200
The King of Uruk, chronically mistreats his people, and shows the gods up.
Who is Gilgamesh?
200
"Now I will pray to the great gods, for my friend had an ominous dream."
Who is Gilgamesh?
200
Gilgamesh is the King of this city-state
What is Uruk?
200
Standard version of "The Epic of Gilgamesh" written down in this year
What is 1350 B.C.?
300
The Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and war who proposed to Gilgamesh
Who is Ishtar?
300
The only mortal person to be granted the gift of immortality
Who is Utnapishtim?
300
"No mortal man has gone this way before, nor will, as long as the winds drive over the sea."
Who is Shamash?
300
Gilgamesh encounters Shamash here
What is the garden of the gods?
300
The Epic of Gilgamesh was copied for Ashurbanipal's library in this year
What is 650 B.C.?
400
The Sumerian queen of the underworld
Who is Ereshkigal or Irkalla (the same person)?
400
The guard of the sacred, cedar forest who Gilgamesh killed
Who is Humbaba?
400
"This one who comes to us now is flesh of the gods."
Who is the Man-Scorpion?
400
Enkidu's dream took him here
What is the underworld?
400
Myths such as "The Epic of Gilgamesh" started as this type of tradition
What is the oral tradition?
500
The Sumerian god who judges the dead and controls destinies
Who is Anunnaki?
500
The guards to the entrance of the mountain and the garden of the gods
What are the Scorpion-men or the Man-Scorpions?
500
"When I look at you you have become like a god. Why do you yearn to run wild again with the beasts in the hills? Get up from the ground, the bed of a shepherd."
Who is the harlot?
500
The paradise for the gods
What is Dilmun?
500
These people ended the Sumerian civilization and buried all of the copies of The Epic of Gilgamesh