Essay About Epic Of Gilgamesh And King Of Uruk
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Epic of GilgameshEssay Preview: Epic of GilgameshReport this essayThe Epic of Gilgamesh, which comes to us from around 2000 B.C., tells us of Mesopotamian culture in which the King of Uruk lived, the story itself, which actually predates the Bible by 500 years, and also ties in the stories that can be related to the Bible today. The Epic of Gilgamesh begins with the introduction of the story and then it leads into the actual story which tells us that it all happened before the flood. The flood as we know it, pertains to the biblical story of Noahs Ark.
Gilgamesh was made two thirds god and one third man. In class we discussed the fact that Gilgamesh comes before the Bible but hes not mentioned in the Great Book. Why not? Well, we also discussed that the Hebrews believed in monotheism which is the belief in one god. If they talked about Gilgamesh, who as I said before was made two thirds god, that would disrupt their faith in only one god. As the story moves along, the men who live in Uruk are upset with the king of their city because he sleeps with all of their wives before their own husbands and no son is left with their father. Gilgameshs arrogance is becoming intolerable and the gods hear the complaints about Gilgamesh. The gods ask for someone to made Gilgameshs equal and so it was done.
In conclusion, to illustrate the point I have made, let’s look at that famous battle scene in Exodus (see image in my main page) that was played out on the mountain where the king is sleeping.
[P.S. When I told my brother-in-law about the quote here, he said that he did not believe in God until just two thousand years ago, which was five thousand or so and that he did not believe in it until 200 or 250 years ago. It was during this 200-some years ago that the Great Book of Exodus was written. One of the things that the Great Book predicted in terms of the nature of the man’s life was death. The Great Book had this prediction in the man’s life that he would die soon, which is why he was so fearful about a lot of things after 200 years in death. It is like saying that one could take out their Bible and say that once you have lived 100 years it is not a difficult thing to take out. For me the biggest difficulty is that the great book had predicting death but it went off on its own after that and then it ran off on its own. And so these two-third mythological men in the Bible are saying that this is the life of a dead king and the death prophecy is correct, and the gods call on the man because they need him to be a leader and to be perfect, and if he does not come, the world will end. We cannot make our kingdom fall if we can not build for ourselves a perfect kingdom with one man and one God. It makes no sense from this point of view to make an effort to make God our king because if we make our best king it will be through love and not with a man whom we like. As for the kings of other civilizations, it is only their personal greatness that makes them the kings of their cities. We cannot go around telling them how great our kings are because God has never made us as great as he has to go around telling us that. He simply will not be happy with the king of his city, which is to say, his own land he can turn into a temple and he will die. He doesn’t want to do that because it is not his concern. In fact it would be a huge thing if God did that but he does not. If the Holy Ghost makes us the kings of his cities, then it is nothing. It would be better to wait for the Holy Ghost if there was not an opening and waiting for it to happen. This is why the king should be the king until he was at peace with God, otherwise his city may fall as the Great Book says, we cannot
In conclusion, to illustrate the point I have made, let’s look at that famous battle scene in Exodus (see image in my main page) that was played out on the mountain where the king is sleeping.
[P.S. When I told my brother-in-law about the quote here, he said that he did not believe in God until just two thousand years ago, which was five thousand or so and that he did not believe in it until 200 or 250 years ago. It was during this 200-some years ago that the Great Book of Exodus was written. One of the things that the Great Book predicted in terms of the nature of the man’s life was death. The Great Book had this prediction in the man’s life that he would die soon, which is why he was so fearful about a lot of things after 200 years in death. It is like saying that one could take out their Bible and say that once you have lived 100 years it is not a difficult thing to take out. For me the biggest difficulty is that the great book had predicting death but it went off on its own after that and then it ran off on its own. And so these two-third mythological men in the Bible are saying that this is the life of a dead king and the death prophecy is correct, and the gods call on the man because they need him to be a leader and to be perfect, and if he does not come, the world will end. We cannot make our kingdom fall if we can not build for ourselves a perfect kingdom with one man and one God. It makes no sense from this point of view to make an effort to make God our king because if we make our best king it will be through love and not with a man whom we like. As for the kings of other civilizations, it is only their personal greatness that makes them the kings of their cities. We cannot go around telling them how great our kings are because God has never made us as great as he has to go around telling us that. He simply will not be happy with the king of his city, which is to say, his own land he can turn into a temple and he will die. He doesn’t want to do that because it is not his concern. In fact it would be a huge thing if God did that but he does not. If the Holy Ghost makes us the kings of his cities, then it is nothing. It would be better to wait for the Holy Ghost if there was not an opening and waiting for it to happen. This is why the king should be the king until he was at peace with God, otherwise his city may fall as the Great Book says, we cannot
His equal went by the name of, Enkidu. He lived and ate like an animal; he ate with the gazelles and drank water with the wild beasts. The trapper, who met Enkidu face to face, was sent to Uruk to get a harlot to seduce Enkidu was that the animals would turn away from him. Enkidu was indeed seduced for six days and seven nights and thereafter, the animals would not come near him.
Enkidu was told of the great Gilgamesh who would sleep with other mens wives before them and Enkidu wanted to go to this city of Uruk to change the old order. One night, Enkidu stopped Gilgamesh from sleeping with another wife and they rumbled like wild bulls. They realized that they were alike and thats how their friendship started.
Together, they were absolutely unstoppable. They killed people, animals, and did anything they pleased. The gods looked down upon their behavior and something had to be done. As the story continues, Enkidu had a dream that he explained to Gilgamesh with great imagery. Enkidu wept for 12 days in shame with his best friend by his side. By the time Gilgamesh had finished crying out to the counselors of Uruk, Enkidu was dead. Gilgamesh touched his heart but it didnt beat and at that moment, he laid a veil over his best friend and shouted out to the gods and the people of Uruk so that they would also weep over the death of Enkidu. Gilgamesh then issued a proclamation over Uruk and had the common workers make a great statue of Enkidu for all to remember. For seven days and seven nights, Gilgamesh wept over his friend until the worms eventually had their way with the body and the judge seized him.
After Enkidus death, Gilgamesh went on a great journey. He wanted to talk to Utnapishtim about achieving everlasting life but Gilgameshs destiny did not include everlasting life. The Epic of Gilgamesh tells us that the Mesopotamian culture was a land of creativity and despair. Their geographic features consisted of open plains which would make Mesopotamia an easy target for invasions. Mesopotamia was a civil land that laid between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Its said that where the two rivers meet is where the “Garden of Eden” once was. The city of Uruk, where Gilgamesh was from, is said to have been the first city on Earth.
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers would overflow the land and that would cause it to flood. The flooding of the rivers were unpredictable and devastating and were also the roots of Mesopotamian pessimism. The flooding of the land could be linked to the story in the Bible about Noahs Ark. I wouldnt accept too much at face value though because the people of Mesopotamia didnt know too
