Mrs. Yancie's Room!: The Epic of Gilgamesh

Qion Seals                                        10-31-2016

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These stories tell me that the gods seek revenge whenever they get angered or upset. For example, in the story when Istar got upset, she went off to tell her dad, anu, to suffer from a seven year drought. Then she got even more upset, and then she told her dad to give her the bull heaven, after some pep talk, her dad finally broke down and gave her the bull of heaven. The bull trampled the streets of uruk and everything in its sight. All in all i got to say, the gods are mysterious people and will let their people suffer alongside them as in the story.

Gilgamesh's change from cruel to compassionate tells me that a person of a good nature can transform a person bad nature. For example, in the story gilgamesh was ripping sons away from their fathers and demanded wives away from their husbands. Then when the people talked to their goddess, enkidu was created. Gilgamesh and enkidu fought like bull through the streets, walls and floors trembling with every move they took. Then, enkidu did an amazing thing, he surrenders to gilgamesh admitting his defeat. By him doing the right thing, gilgamesh and the great enkidu became friends. This reflect to mesopotamian values and beliefs by the way that eruku surrendered and becoming friends like something they believe in very greatly in the mesopotamian culture.    

In some biblical stories, there were quite a few fights between great beings in history just like gilgamesh and enkidu when they fought. In the biblical stories great beings fought for different reasons, but none had anyone who admitted the others defeat like enkidu did to gilgamesh. All stories should have the same ending like this one. To recap, they became friends over something politely done. To sum it up, they in biblical and gilgamesh’s scenario, things came to a rough start but uniquely worked themselves out.