Characters
Plot
Quotes
Hero Cycle
Background
100
He is the King of Uruk.
Who is Gilgamesh?
100
This person was sent to Enkidu by Gilgamesh.
Who is a harlot?
100
This person said, "I have not established my name stamped on bricks as my destiny decreed."
Who is Gilgamesh?
100
He is 2/3 gods and 1/3 man.
What is Gilgamesh?
100
This is where the epic took place.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
He is the wild man and Gilgamesh's partner.
Who is Enkidu?
200
The name of Gilgamesh's axe.
What is the Might of Heros?
200
This person said, "Who is this that violates my woods?"
Who is Humbaba?
200
The death of Enkidu.
What is one of the tests of Gilgamesh?
200
The two rivers that surround Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigres and Euphrates?
300
He is the guardian of the Cedar Forest.
Who is Humbaba?
300
"His name shall be stamped in brick."
What is Gilgamesh's destiny?
300
This person said, "My father, give me the Bull of Heaven to destroy Gilgamesh."
Who is Ishtar?
300
This is Ishtar's revenge for Humbaba's death.
What is the Bull of Heaven?
300
The writing made by pressing a stick into wet mud.
What is cuneiform?
400
He guides Gilgamesh across the untouchable ocean.
Who is Urshanabi?
400
The distance Gilgamesh traveled to get to the garden of the gods.
What is 12 leagues?
400
This person said, "Gilgamesh, I shall reveal a secret thing, it is a mystery of the gods that I am telling you."
Who is Utnapishtim?
400
Gilgamesh is the light and darkness of mankind.
What is Gilgamesh's spiritual reward and revealed destiny?
400
The goddess of love, war, and fertility.
Who is Ishtar?
500
She is the mother of Gilgamesh.
Who is Ninsun?
500
The weight of Gilgamesh and Enkidu's equipment.
What is 30 score pounds?
500
This person said, "When you are dead he will let his hair grow long for your sake, he will wear a lion's pelt and wander through the desert."
Who is Shamash?
500
This is the amount of poles required for Gilgamesh to cross the untouchable ocean.
What is 120?
500
This is the god of the underworld.
Who is Nergal?
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