Epic of gilgamesh summary by tablets
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To tell the story, I’ll post the tablet up, then the summary description below it. Just to clarify the smaller figures in the tablets, Gilgamesh is the guy with a row of spikes above his head, almost like a sideways crown, and Enkidu is the stockier guy with the beard. The less detail the better, when it comes to communicating information without clogging the tablets. Tablet One!
Tablet One-
The story starts with the introduction of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Gilgamesh, two-thirds god and one-third man, oppresses the city’s citizens who cry out to the gods for help. For the young women of Uruk this oppression takes the form of a droit de seigneur- or “lord’s right” – to newly married brides on their wedding night. For the young men it is conjectured that Gilgamesh exhausted them through games, tests of strength, or perhaps forced labour on building projects. The gods respond to the citizen’s plea for intervention by creating an equal to
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A prelude gives a brief introduction to the hero. Gilgamesh was born to Lady Wildcow Ninsun, a minor goddess noted for her wisdom, and his father's name was Lugulbanda. Gilgamesh built the great city of Uruk and raised magnificent, intricately constructed outer and inner walls around the city. He made impressive temples for Anu, the god of the heavens, and for Anu’s daughter Ishtar, the goddess of war and love. Gilgamesh was very fond of orchards and ponds and irrigated fields. A dauntless explorer, he opened up many passes through the mountains and dug wells in the forests. Gilgamesh traveled to the edge of the earth and beyond to seek the secret of eternal life from Utnapishtim, the sole survivor of the great flood. When he returned from his travels, he registered everything down on a tablet of lapis lazuli and locked it in a copper chest.
The epic poem begins with Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, as terrifying and an all-powerful tyrant. He sacrifices warriors at the drop of hat, w
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Summary
The story begins with a prologue introducing us to the main character, Gilgamesh, the Priest-King of Uruk. Gilgamesh’s mother is Ninsun, sometimes referred to as the Lady Wildcow Ninsun. She was a goddess, endowing Gilgamesh with a semi-divine naturlig eller utan tillsats . Lugulbanda, a priest, was his father. Gilgamesh constructed the great city of Uruk along the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia, and surrounded it intricately decorated walls. He also built a temple for the goddess Ishtar, the goddess of love, and her father Anu, the father of the gods. Gilgamesh is credited with opening passages through the mountains. He traveled to the Nether World and beyond it, where he met Utnapishtim, the sole survivor of the great flood that almost ended the world, the one who had been given immortality. When he returned to Uruk, he wrote everything down on a platta of lapis lazuli and locked it in a copper chest.
As the story begins, Gilgamesh is a tyrannical leader who shows little regard for his peopl