Archetypes & Symbols
What archetype does Ishtar represent?
What is the temptress?
"Let a counselor and friend come to me that I may acquire a companion, and to him I shall be a friend and counselor also"
Who is Gilgamesh?
The city that Gilgamesh built the walls for and now rules.
What is Uruk?
What are the consequences of Enkidu being with Shamash for 6 days and 7 nights?
What is the animals shun him and he feels weakened and defiled?
We follow this persons journey, and it is still a question today on if they changed or not.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Who represents the beast archetype?
What is the Bull of Heaven?
Because they killed the bull of heaven and have also slain Humbaba, one of them who pulled up the Cedar of the mountain must die!
Who is Anu?
This is where Gilgamesh must safeguard and cut a tree down.
Where is the forest of Cedars?
How many dreams did Gilgamesh have before going to the forest of Cedar?
What is 5 dreams?
Who adopts Enkidu as her son and asks him to guard Gilgameshs' life?
Who is Ninsun?
Who is the knowledgable mentor figure to Gilgamesh?
Who is Utnapishtim?
__ says this: Since you are determined upon the struggle,Then come away.Let your heart not be troubled and follow me.
Who is Enkidu?
The place between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates
Where is Mesopotamia?
What is the dream Enkidu had about the Netherworld?
What is a great demon turns him into a dove and drives him to the "house of darkness?/ Where is Irkalla?
Gilgamesh climbs to the mountain top and prays to who in tablet 4?
Who is Shamash?
What does Humbaba symbolize?
What is the force of nature?
"You will be my master, I will be your servant. As for my trees, I will cut them down and build you houses."
Who is Humbaba?
This is where Ningishzida resides.
Where is the land of no return?
When mourning Enkidu what is the name of the twin mountains Gilgamesh arrives at?
What is the twin mountains of Mashu?
Who is the only human to be immortal?
Who is Utnapishtim?
The snake symbolizes this..
What is renewal and the inevitability of death?
In the morning I will let loaves of bread shower down,
and in the evening a rain of wheat!
Go inside the boat, seal the entry!'
Who is Shamash?
What is the house of Utnapishtim?
How does Uta-Napishti test Gilgamesh to see how worthy of immortality he is?
What is challenging Gilgamesh to stay awake for 7 nights? (He quickly falls asleep)
Who is the lover of her youth who is now doomed to spend 6 months of the year in the Netherworld?
Who is Dumuzi?