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Unlike the superman he had imagined. The listed critical essays and books will be invaluable for writing essays and papers on The Epic of Gilgamesh. Suppose, Gilgamesh, you do cross the sea, 110 When you reach the waters of death, what will you do? As soon as Enlil arrived, 175 He saw the boat, Enlil flew into a rage, He was filled with fury at the gods: "Who came through alive? [Enkidu dies.] ), with the force of the hero Ninurta. Application of O'Flahetty's "banalization of the gods" deserves far more space than I devote to it here. SCRIPTURE: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Dear Parents Welcome to Bible Time. Conditions were dismal, although there were gradations of misery. The Mesopotamians considered a small group of the gods "great" or "superior," above all the others. Such a band is visible behind the ear of Gilgamesh in figure 5. The Stone Charms, Gilgamesh, are what carry me, Lest I touch the waters of death. Furthermore, Ishtar's threat to release the dead, in Tablet VI, lines , is also found in "Ishtar's Descent to the Netherworld." One should also ask whether this pervasive image tells us something about intrafamilial relations in ancient Mesopotamia. 111 his city Gilgamesh issued a proclamation, 111 Kulaba the bugle sounded: 0 city! You then, how did you join the ranks of the gods and find eternal life? The name Gilgamesh itself is composed 5. At twenty double leagues they took a bite to eat, At thirty double leagues they made their camp, Fifty double leagues they went in a single day, A journey of a month and a half in three days. Towards sunset they dug a well, They filled [their waterskin with water]. Huwawa will mislead us on the road to the mountain land, He will confound us on the path to the mountain land. Ur-Shanabi look the rudder(?) 16 He took the road, set off towards Uruk, To [the king], Gilgamesh, [he said these words]: There is a certain fellow [who has come from the uplands], He is mightiest in the land, strength is his. Tablet and line references are to the Akkadian Gilgamesh translation in this Norton Critical Edition. 115 How long till there is a shining chair for me to sit on? This brings him into contact with man. After setting out gifts for the gods, Gilgamesh dies, perhaps by drinking poison. Characters such as Gilgamesh's parents and the father of Ihe hunter have been eliminated. Ihmbaba made ready to speak, saying to Gilgamesh: How well-advised they are, the fool Gilgamesh and the yokelman! She was not bashful, she took his vitality. zoc 1 ICilgamesh captures Huwawa.] 7 xiv INTRODUCTION Form, Authorship, and Audience of The Epic of Gilgamesh The Mesopotamians had no word corresponding to "epic" or "m)nh7' in their languages. She takes "hold of him as the gods do" and leads him away from nature to the hut of the shepherds.' [... 1 with wood, down [... ] they ate. Today I myself will bring the ball back up from the netherworld, I myself will bring the stick back up from hell. came angry] in her heart [... ] $ 11 [When] Enkidu heard this report, [anger] came over [him]. 170 The bull, tossing its head up and down, collapsed, dissolved like clay, spread out like a heap of grain. In its base, a snake which fears no spell made its nest, In its branches, the Anzu bird raised its young, In its trunk, a young demoness made her home. 2. 120,000 talents of pure, good [copper? Its mighty city wall is a cloud touching the earth, Its lofty seat was established by the god An. When he identifies himself, the tavern keeper is skeptical and wants to know why anyone so splendid as Gilgamesh appears in such condition.] [Gilga!mesh makes a ball and stick, plays with them, and loses them.] I who went with you through all hardships, 170 Remember me, my friend, do not forget what I have undergone! lgilgamesh seeks help fiom the god Enki in the city of Eridu.] To set a captured warrior free, To return a captured priestess to her residence, 2511 To return a captured priest to his bewigged finery, who has ever seen the like? (Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1996) xxiii, 13 Tablet I I'l'lze prologue introduces Gilgamesh as a man who gained knowledge lhrough exceptional trials. They cast great daggers, Their blades were 120 pounds each, The cross guards of their handles thirtv ~ounds each. May Enlil be delighted with you, May Enlil rejoice over it! 3. One sar city, one sar orchards, one sar pasture and pond-and the fallow fields of Ishtar's house- Three sar and fallow fields-uruk you will see [?]. [The scene shifts to Uruk, where Gilgamesh is telling his mother, Ninsun, his dreams. Gilgamesh finds him, but there are difficulties at first. In Tablet I, line 3 1, for example, Gilgamesh as king is compared to a charging wild bull, an image common enough when used in praise of Mesopotamian royalty, but the image gains richness a few lines later by reference to his mother, Ninsun, as a wild cow (I, 37): Gilgamesh is a wild bull by birth, so to speak, as well as by behavior. 1. Say to Ti[... 1, king of [... Iranunna, thus says [Gilgamesh, kling of Ur, the Kulabian, created by Anu, [Enlil], and Ea, favorite of Shamash, beloved of Marduk,' who rules all lands from the horizon to the zenith like a cord [... 1, whose feet daised monarchs kiss, the king who has put all lands, from sunrise to sunset, under control, as with a cord, this [according to the comlmand of Enlil-of-Victory: [I have formed up] and sent you 600 work-troops. The hardness of his muscles is disap- 2. Lines often divide into two, three, or more parts with roughly the same number of words in each part, usually two to four, though there are many variations on this pattern. By the life of the mother who bore me, the goddess Ninsun, and my father, the divine pure Lugalbanda, 15 And my personal god Enki, Nudimmud! Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld Part of the Sumerian epic poem "Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld," beginning at line 161, was translated into Akkadian and appended to The Epic of Gilgamesh as Tablet XI1 (omitted in this Norton Critical Edition). The god Dumuzi, a fisherman(? lhkidu said to her, to the harlot: Come, Shamhat, escort me To the lustrous hallowed temple, abode of Anu and Ishtar, The place of Gilgamesh, who is perfect in strength, And so, like a wild bull, he lords it over the young men. The poem also contains first-person discourse by individual characters describing their past (XI, 9-209) or present (IX, 3-12) actions. There are also great verses, The Story of the Titanic Called "Lost or Saved?" THEME: Jesus is our cornerstone! Enkidu lay there one day, [a second day] he was ill, Enkidu lay in his bed, [his illness grew worse]. They also recognized a hero as a man striving towards greater accomplishments than those of ordinary people, in spite of the limitations imposed by chance and destiny. I will bring you and your family(?) Gilgamesh heeded his friend's command, IIe raised the axe at his side, I le drew the sword at his belt. Theirs, then, was a reversal of normal societal relations, which potentially undermined the continuity and stability of the family. 9. And did not seven masters lay its foundations? Composition by PennSet, Inc. Manufacturing by Maple-Vail Book Group. And so at long last, after incredible hardships, Gilgamesh has reached his goal. Don't [release] Huwawa!" We learn that, as in the Babylonian epic, Gilgamesh visits an ancient hero now residing beyond the "waters of death," but neither the motivation for his quest nor its outcome are (tated in the preserved lines. 1' The fate of mankind has overtaken him. Let them close behind me the doors of woe, [Let them seal them] with pitch and tar. The gods are not mocked. However, it seems hardly to have been institutionalized as it was in classical Athens (see the study by K. Dover, Greek Homosexuality [New York: Vintage, 19781). Enkidu went to relate his dream, Saying to his friend: Tablet VII My friend, why were the great gods in council? Probably, therefore, we should imagine the Old Babylonian epic (or story of the quest) as not yet having it-at least not at such length-and assume that it was included because of its intrinsic interest by Sin-liqi-unninni in his version. THORKILD JACOBSEN "And Death the Journey's End": The Gilgamesh Epici Gilgamesh, as far as one can judge, was a historical figure, the ruler of the city of Uruk (the biblical Erekh) around 2600 B.C. Then read pages 1 24 in the novel. In an obscure passage, a god apparently tells Shamash what Gilgamesh is doing.] In order to safeguard the forest of cedars, 165 Enlil has appointed him to terrify the people, Enlil has destined him seven fearsome glories3 That journey is not to be undertaken, That creature is not to be looked upon. Enkidu, horrified, tries vainly to dissuade him.] In the assembly, the ritual place of the gods, When I, the lord Gilgamesh, came near, They were speaking about me, the lord Gilgamesh, about mv fame, he; were talking of the campaigns I had waged: "Bringing down that cedar, like no other, from the I mountain, Smiting Huwawa in his forest, ~recting steles for now and forever, Establishing the temples of the gods, Reaching Ziusudra in his abode, Resurrecting the forgotten, archaic and ancient rites of Sumer, The ordinances and rituals of the land, Executing perfectly the rites of purification, Understanding everything of what was needful for the land, from before the flood," [Gilgamesh reports what he dreamed the great gods ordained for him.] I will lay the threshold [of the gate with lapis lazuli] and porphyry(?)."' Ihkidu made Gilgamesh a shelter for receiving dreams, A gust was blowing, he fastened the door. Gilgamesh [replied to her]: If I slay it, I will throw its carcass in the alley, I will set its enormous entrails in the main street, I will give its hide to the tanner, I will dole out its meat by the bushel to the orphans of the city, I will give its two horns as oil vessels before the goddess Inanna in the Eanna temple. Who Was Gilgamesh? I le said to his servant Enkidu: Enkidu, should I not let the captured bird return to its home? Thrice thirty-six hundred measures basket-bearers brought aboard for oil, Not counting the thirty-six hundred measures of oil that the offering consumed, And the twice thirty-six hundred measures of oil that the boatbuilders made off with. (G.) How does he fare? 85 May [riffraff] of the street shove each other in your brothel, May there be a brawl [there That IS, may anyone h ~t her, drunk or not. in his hand, [while] Gilgamesh 2 [the poles] III his hand. He replied, "I will lay] the threshold [of thc gate... with] lapis lazuli [and] porphyry(?)." 245. (G.) How does he fare? Here you are, even you, afraid of death, What has become of your bravery's might? This important restoration is particularly uncertain. He is finally able to accept reality and with it a new possible scale of value: the immortality he now seeks, in which he now takes pride, is the relative immortality of lasting achievement, as symbolized by the walls of Uruk. Utanapishtim shall dwell far distant at the source of the rivers." It.. seems. VI There was no attempt to reconcile the contradiction. HEALING IS IN THE ATONEMENT By Andrew Wommack, The Heroic Journey: Metaphor for the path through addiction and recovery. (God s word tells us that the power of life and death is in the tongue) We know, Jesus at the Temple (at age 12) Teacher Pep Talk: Twelve sounds so grown up, especially when you are a Little Guy! Ihkidu was walking in front, with Shamhat behind him. [... ] balsam [... 1, 120 [... ] cedar [ Its fronds were green chlorite, [... ] sweet dates, Coral(? I lc took hold of himself and approached them. Tablet I IAlthough the writer begins by stating his intention to sing of the exploits of Iris hero, and one of the tablets is labeled "Song of Gilgamesh," the Hittite /ext is composed in prose, not poetry. The earth opened and the playthings Gilgamesh had made for himself fell down into the netherworld as a reproof to the thoughtless revelers. my wing!"). I luwawa clutched Gilgamesh's hand, and threw himself down before him. (E.) I saw him. are referred to as the "middle versions." He did what he said he would. 1. 106 188 THORKILD JACOBSEN pearing; he feels flabby, out of condition, no longer fit as in the ( days in the desert. Gilgamesh [said] to his minstrel, Lugal-gaba-gal: 0 my minstrel, sing a song, tune your strings, I will have a drink, [fill] the bronze goblet. Then] Shangashu [led] the harlot [out to Enkidu. Afterwards, when Enkidu returns to the hills where he lives, the an… The princess Ishtar coveted Gilgamesh's beauty: Come, Gilgamesh, you shall be my bridegroom! Iahrhunderts v. [The mother goddess blames Enlil for the flood, saying her glittering necklace of fly-shaped beads, which may stand for the rainbow, will memorialize the human race drowned in the flood.] And yet Gilgamesh does so, detailing his refusal at length with the sordid features of Ishtar's many love affairs and her previous marriage. Ninsun, the divine mother of Gilgamesh, is all that a mother should be: caring, nurturing, and assisting her son in his quest, anxious though she is about it. Convinced finally by his week-long sleep that he must die, Gilgamesh, as already noted, yields, accepts his mortality, and allows himself to be bathed and clothed in fresh garments. Hey there, lusty one, anointed with glistening oil, Noble one, delight of the gods, 155 Spirited bull rampant in battle, Your mother was the best at bearing a son, Your wet nurse was the best at nursing a son. [Giving heed] to the advice of his father, The hunter went forth [... 1. iso Gilgamesh made ready to speak, Saying to Enkidu: Why, my friend, do you raise such unworthy objections? Her speech is noteworthy for its jarring colloquialisms. Why am I awake? [Gilgamesh challenges the Bull of Heaven.] 53 For my part, I [... ] no amusement, For me, [... ] [Utanapishtim responds in a long speech, poorly known because of damage to the manuscripts. When he arrived ;II [... 1, Siduri the barmaid was seated upon [a golden stool], and a v;~t of gold [stood before her... ] [Gilgamesh argues with Ur-Shanabi about crossing the sea. This passage, lines , which is not found in the Sumerian version of the composition, is restored according to the Akkadian translation. Jacobsen refers here to the story of Enkidu, Tablet 1, lines , and to the stoly in Tablets IX and X IEditorl. He has filled in the pits I dug, He has torn out my traps I set, He has helped the beasts, wildlife of the steppe, slip from my hands, He will not allow me to work the steppe. than (all other) kings, in stature most renowned." I Ie traversed the fifth mountain range, but did not come upon the cedar he desired. Portions of The Epic of Gilgamesh were translated into non- Mesopotamian languages such as Hittite and Hurrian. [With] the Bull of Heaven's [fury I will kill him]! The first loaf is dried hard, The second is leathery, the third soggy, The crust of the fourth has turned white, The fifth is gray with mold, The sixth is fresh, The seventh was still in the coals when I touched you and you woke up. Gold, op. He has also lost the boat, so there is no going back.] She greatly improved the English expression and readability ofthe translation. He mates with the lawful wife, He first, the groom after. Siduri the tavern keeper, who dwells at the edge of the sea, She sits on a [stool of...] For her was wrought the cuprack,' for her the [brewing vat of gold], It(?) ; and Abusch, op. Ihkidu made ready to speak, said to Gilgamesh: 5. "He grcw up," says the author, "and his understanding broadened." In one of the most amusing and lighthearted passages in Babylonian literature, the humanization proceeds as Enkidu is bathed, anointed, clothed, and then introduced to human fare-bread and beer. A second time Gilgamesh said to Huwawa: By the life of the mother who bore me, the goddess Ninsun, and my father, the divine pure Lugalbanda, 170 Nobody knows where you dwell in the mountain land, People should know where you dwell in the mountain land. 190 Let me bring to you in the mountain land big shoes for your big feet. ~ i demdn e Fate, who has no hands, who has'no feet, who kidnaps a man in the night, [has seized me]. This "ancient" inscription is probably not genuine but fabricated to make the treasury sound more venerable. With twice sixty Gilgamesh had used up the poles. Printed in the United States of America First Edition. Apparently the sun crosses the sky during the twelve hours of day and passes through the tunnel during the twelve hours of night so as to return to its rising point.] Hath my mother not baked? In the oldest account of the Babylonian story of the flood, Enki sets a timing device, apparently a water clock, to tell Utanapishtim how much time he has before the coming of the deluge. Reciters of spells were learned scholars while prophets, or "ecstatics," were people who spoke in a trance without having studied their words. When he sees her, he will approach her. (E.) 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