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What is 1/3 human and 2/3 god
What is Gilgamesh's unsual birth?
100
He is the king of uruk.
What is Gilgamesh?
100
What is the exposition of the Epic?
What is Gilgamesh's wall and taking from the people?
100
what is it called when they write in mud with sticks?
What is cuneiform
100
‘Trapper, go back, take with you a harlot, a child of pleasure. At the drinking hole she will strip, and when, he sees her beckoning he will embrace her and the game of the wilderness will surely reject him.
Who is Gilgamesh
200
What is the Journey of humbaba.
What is journey did Enkidu and Gilgamesh embark on?
200
What is Enkidu?
Who was Gilgamesh's Friend?
200
What is the rising action of the Epic?
What is people complaining to the gods about Gilgamesh and getting gear ready to go to the cedar woods to defeat humbaba.
200
what were the two rivers in Mesopotamia?
What is the Tigis and Euphrates
200
‘Mother, I dreamed a second dream.
Who is Gilgamesh
300
What is utnapishtim?
What is Supernatural help does Gilamesh recieve?
300
Who is defeated and becomes headless?
What is humbaba?
300
what is the falling action of the Epic?
What is Enkidu gets sick and dies, Gilgamesh takes it hard. Then continues his quest for immortality.
300
What is it called when you have a rich culture that can build the city out of bricks
What is city-states
300
‘Dear friend, the god to whom we are travelling is no wild bull, though his form is mysterious. That wild bull which you saw is Shamash the Protector; in our moment of peril he will take our hands. The one who gave water from his water-skin, that is your own god who cares for your good name, your Lugulbanda. United with him, together we will accomplish a work the fame of which will never die.'
Who is Enkidu.
400
What is Getting the plant, traveling across the ocean, wrestling Enkidu, and gaining immortality.
What tests does Gilagmesh have to go accomplish?
400
Who was the Guardian of the underworld?
What is man Scorpion?
400
What is the resolution of the Epic?
What is Gilgamesh ends up dying and then fulfills his destiny by getting his name on bricks
400
What inventions did they have?
What is dikes, dams, and clay tablets.
400
‘My father, Gilgamesh has heaped insults on me, he has told over all my abominable behaviour, my foul and hideous acts.'
Who is Ishtar.
500
What is fulfilling his destiny?
What is Gilgamesh's spirtual reward?
500
Who is the divine wine maker?
What is Siduri?
500
What is the overall plot of the Epic?
He does not get what he truly wants but does succeed to fulfill his destiny.
500
what kind of epic is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
What is epic narritive poetry
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As for you, Gilgamesh, who will assemble the gods for your sake, so that you may find that life for which you are searching? But if you wish, come and put into the test: only prevail against sleep for six days and seven nights.'
Who is UTNAPISHTIM.