Epic of Gilgamesh (3/4)

(Repost- the video was inadvertently taken down) – Gilgamesh is the wisest, strongest, and most handsome of mortals, for he is two-thirds god and one-third man. As king of the city-state of Uruk he builds a monumental wall around the city, but in doing so he overworks the city’s inhabitants unmercifully, to the point where they pray to the gods for relief.

The god Anu hears their plea and calls the goddess Aruru to fashion another demigod like Gilgamesh in order that the two heroes might fight and thus give Uruk peace. Aruru creates the warrior Engidu out of clay and sends him to live among the animals of the hills. A hunter of Uruk finds Enkidu and in terror reports his existence to Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh advises the hunter to take a priest to Enkidu’s watering place to lure Enkidu to the joys of civilization and away from his animal life. The priest initiates Enkidu into civilization with her body, her bread, and her wine. Having forsaken his animal existence, Enkidu and the priest start for Uruk. On their arrival she tells him of the strength and wisdom of Gilgamesh and of how Gilgamesh told the goddess Ninsun about his dreams of meeting Enkidu, his equal, in combat….

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