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The Death of Enkidu
The Search for Everlasting Life
The Story of The Flood
The Return
Background Information
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From a sickness due to being cursed.
How did Enkidu die?
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Utnapishtim
Who did Gilgamesh visit?
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7 decks
How many decks are on the boat?
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It represented each day Gilgamesh slept
What did each loaf of bread represent?
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1/3 human and 2/3 God
What is Gilgamesh?
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In the underworld lies the heaven roaring with rumbles from the Earth. Stood there was a man-bird with a vampire face and a lion's foot.
Where is Enkidu in his dream?
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Gilgamesh cried and for the first time he experienced human feelings of grief and fear.
What is Gilgamesh's reaction to the death of his bestfriend, Enkidu?
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They ate sheep and drank raw wine, red wine, white wine and oil.
What did the passengers on the boat eat and drink?
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He washed Gilgamesh long hair as clean as snow in the water, he threw off his skins, renewed the fillet on his forehead, and gave him clothes to cover his nakedness.
What did Urshanabi do to Gilgamesh to cleanse him up?
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He was created by the gods as Gilgamesh's peer to distract him from oppressing he people of Uruk.
What is Enkidu's purpose?
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12 days he layed suffering
What is the amount of days Enkidu laid in bed for?
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Fear of death and to get answers on enternal life
What is Gilgamesh's motive to visit Utnapishtim?
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Everybody aboard the boat will stay alive and everybody else not aboard will die.
What is the outcome for the people that are not aboard the boat?
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30 leagues
What is the amount of leagues Gilgamesh and Urshanabi traveled to return to the walls of Uruk?
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In Mesopotamia, present day Iraq
Where is Uruk built?
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At first he was upset about how he thought he was forgotten by the people but now he's accept his fate and lay's to await it.
What is Enkidu's reaction to his sickness?
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There is no everlasting life. Everybody lives and everybody dies.
What is Utnapishtim reply to Gilgamesh about everlasting life?
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So they can stay alive when the storm hit.
What did they build the boat for?
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Urshanabi
What is the name of the ferryman who directed Gilgamesh to the washing-place?
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A tablet
What was used to notate The Epic of Gilgamesh?
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A God chose Enkidu because him and Gilgamesh killed the Bull of heaven.
What is the reason for the death of Enkidu?
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He has to stay awake for 6 days 7 nights and swim to the bottom of the ocean to obtain the plant of youth.
What did Gilgamesh have to do to obtain everlasting life?
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The ground space was one acre, each side of the deck measured 120 cubic.
What are the measurements to the boat?
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First loaf was hard, second loaf was like leather, the third loaf was soggy, the crust of the fourth had mold, the fifth was mildewed, the sixth was fresh, and the seventh was still on the embers.
What are the stages for each loaf of bread made to resemble the days Gilgamesh slept?
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4,000 years ago
When was the great city built by Gilgamesh?