Gilgamish

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Gilgamish - legendary Sumerian king and hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics

Sumer - an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC

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Part one discusses the Epic of Atrahasis, providing us with a careful study of the relevant manuscripts in which it is presented and its relationship to the Gilgamish Epic, the Enuma Elish, and other such narratives in the Old Mesopotamian manuscripts.

Primeval History: Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic, an Intertextual Reading

(13) SUSAN ACKERMAN, WHEN HEROES LOVE: THE AMBIGUITY OF EROS IN THE STORIES OF GILGAMISH AND DAVID 4 (2005).

Martha Nussbaum, essentialism, and human sexuality

Dr Nadine added: "Snakes are associated with fertility, secrets of the underground or sea, rejuvenation and possibly connects with the myth of Gilgamish who went in search of the flower of eternity, which could have either been a pearl or a flower."

Treasure trove of history

(6.) Stephen Langdon, The Epic of Gilgamish, PBS 10/3 (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1917), 219.

A note on ki-ma LI-i-im (Gilgamesh P 218, 224)

People acquired new identities and, in effect, became humanized as members of social systems--like Adam and Eve, Gilgamish, or Achilles.