The gods listened to the groans of the people.
The gods in heaven complained to Anu, the god who protected Uruk:
'Isn't this The raging, wild bull you created?'
'No competitor in the world can take up arms against him.'
'His followers are always there. Stay alert and pay attention to his orders at all times.'
'Gilgamesh will not leave his sons to fathers.'
'The alternation of day and night , his arrogance and rage never cease.'
'Is he the master of Uruk?
Is he the king of these people? Just because he is strong and outstanding, School wisdom and wisdom.'
'Gilgamesh will not leave mothers their daughters, even the daughters of warriors, or the brides of young nobles.'
So all God asked Anu to 'create a man who matches him. Let this man have the same wild heart as him and let them have similar abilities. This will definitely bring peace to Uruk'
So Enkidu was born. Unlike Gilgamesh, who was heroic and heroic and almost the crystallization of human ideals, he was closer to the image of the son of nature. The record in the epic is as follows
He started from He drew strength from Ninurta.
He was covered with hair, and his hair was as long as that of a woman. Just like Nisaba.
He did not know anyone and had no fixed identity. At home, he is dressed like a sumu.
He eats grass like an antelope.
He rubs shoulders with wild beasts and gathers together at the pond to drink water.
< p>He was sleeping with the beasts, and he smiled when he saw the water.Enkidu demolished the hunter's trap in the wild, and was shocked by its power. He asked Gilgamesh for help, and Gilgamesh The solution...
Take this prostitute with you.'
When he and the animals are drinking water in the pond.
To The prostitute takes off her clothes, revealing her feminine charm.
When he sees her, he will be attracted to her.
At this time, his beasts will He abandoned it and became a different world from him.'
It should be noted here that the prostitute refers to the prostitute of God in the temple, and all her income is turned over to the temple... The occupation of the prostitute is in In ancient times, it was not that it was dirty today, but it was regarded as a kind of psychic and belonged to the clergy system.
After Enchidu, described in the article, had several ecstatic days and nights with the prostitute, he was not only rejected by the beasts, but also gradually lost his ability to communicate with the beasts and survive like a beast. It can also be thought that these exchanges allowed him to change from the beast he originally identified as a man to a man, thereby distinguishing himself from other things; at the same time, because the level of human sexual desire has exceeded the original instinctive reproductive needs of animals, it has become a physiological and psychological need. Pleasure itself is essentially different from beasts. Referring to people's worship of sex and reproduction at that time (the city of Gilgamesh worshiped Ishtar, the goddess of love, which also illustrates an orientation issue), this can probably be regarded as a kind of enlightenment education... ...Although Enkidu lost his beast-like intuition and strength, he gained wisdom and understood more broad things. And decided to challenge Gilgamesh...
Gilgamesh also sensed something. He had a dream, and meteorites in the sky fell beside him.
He tried to lift it, but it has the power to compete with you... Gilgamesh, who was confused by this, asked his mother for help, and his mother's answer was as follows
Yes A man similar to you. A man who is looking for a companion.
He has the most powerful power in this continent. He is the strongest man.
His power can even To compete with the great god Anu is a man you will love as your own wife.
But I want him to compete with you.
That one can compete with The man you compete with.
He is also a friend who can save you.
He is the strongest person in this continent, he is the strongest man.
< p>He has power comparable to that of the great god Anu!'Gilgamesh said to his mother: Thank you to the omniscient Ningsun, the most wise man. You have unlocked my soul. Dream. Maybe I need a friend and someone who can guide me. Your explanation helped me find him in my dream.
In fact, from the perspective of the entire epic poem, Gilgamesh and Enkidu The relationship between them is indeed as his mother said, more like lovers than friends... It seems that someone is right to call them the earliest BL couple in human history... ...
Then there was a battle between the two... The two sides were evenly matched and the outcome was indistinguishable. However, Gilgamesh, who had never encountered an opponent before, admired Enkidu's strength and took the initiative to admit defeat. And Enchidu was also impressed by Gilgamesh's spirit and decided to become his eternal slave. Originally enemies, they became friends (or lovers...)
The next two The two partners completed many heroic deeds. In the process, Enkidu learned knowledge from Gilgamesh, and Gilgamesh also began to change - the violent and dissolute side gradually converged, and opinion, determination and compassion became the dominant factors. .
The greatest achievement of the two is of course to deal with the legendary giant Humbaba (berserker...) who protects the sacred cedar forest. This Humbaba has great magical powers, and his cry is the storm. His mouth is fire, his breath is death, and he also imprisoned the goddess Ishtar (the thunder god MM of the Holy War Puri...) With the support of the sun god Shamash, the two fought hard to win (it turns out that even if A demigod like Uncle B is no match for Gilgamesh even if he has transformed into a demigod berserker... Guessing the style of play, Enkidu will stall for time in the front, Gilgamesh will pose behind, and Enkidu will retreat first when the time is up. , Gilgamesh puts EA behind...) After the battle, Gilgamesh chopped down the sacred cedar tree and rescued Ishtar... What seemed perfect made Enkidu repeatedly suffer. Troubled by nightmares, an ominous shadow enveloped him. This is also the beginning of all misfortunes...
The heroic Gilgamesh was favored by the goddess Ishtar, who asked him to be her other husband. However, because he knew the goddess Ishtar thoroughly (or because he was a BL...), Gilgamesh not only refused the goddess's request, but also ridiculed her from head to toe. All the misfortunes of gods and humans after the marriage of the goddess's husband were revealed - including the famous plant god Tamuz.
The goddess became angry and acted coquettishly in front of the god Anu (the prototype of Allah), demanding that the sacred cow be brought to the world to bring disaster to mankind to punish Gilgamesh for his disrespect. In exchange, Ishtar had stored fodder and grain from seven years of poor harvest in advance. So the sacred cow came and killed hundreds of people in the city. Gilgamesh and Enchidu joined forces again to attack and killed the sacred cow (UBW line Gilgamesh introduced the lock of heaven and said: This is the lock that once bound the sky. The chain of the bull, based on this, the fighting method is probably to first lock the poor cow with the chain of heaven, and then use the king's treasure to prick the cow into a hedgehog while shouting happily that you can't hit me...)< /p>
The long-horned beetle was killed, which angered Ishtar even more. She cursed Gilgamesh on the tower of Uruk. But the hero ignored her. After washing his hands in the Euphrates River, he returned in triumph and held a feast. Killing the messenger of the god and mocking the goddess, the god became angry. The gods held a meeting, and the god Anu believed that Gilgamesh had cut down the sacred cedar tree and killed the sacred cow. Gilgamesh would of course have to accept punishment and die, but another great god, who has always treated human beings, The prejudiced god Enlil, the god of air, said that Enkidu could die instead. Only Shamash argued hard, but Enlil refuted it directly. So Enkidu had three ominous nightmares in a row, became seriously ill, became weaker day by day, and finally died. Gilgamesh was devastated. He loved his friend more than anyone in the world and he couldn't let him die. So he vowed to save Enzidu. At the same time, he was not only grieving for the death of his friend, he thought of himself and that all human beings would not be able to escape this day. He was confused. He resolutely embarked on a long journey to find Utnapishtim (Noah of Babylon), the ancestor of mankind, the only human being to survive the flood, and later became the immortal. He and his wife live on the legendary island of Dilmun - where the sun rises, beyond the Sea of ??Death. Perhaps only he understood the secret of eternal life.
He traveled long distances, wearing animal skins and eating raw meat along the way; passing through Marsh Mountain on the road to the sun, the mythical beast Pabir Sag (the lower body of a scorpion and the upper body of a human, refer to the shape of the rock in The Mummy Returns) Model) stopped him and said no one could come back that way. Gilgamesh said:
Even though there will be sorrow and pain,
Even though there will be moisture and dryness,
Even though there will be sighs and tears, I will Want to go. Come, open the door to the mountain for me!
The Scorpion Man was impressed by his magnanimity and got out of the way.
Through the boundless darkness, he saw the sun rising and came to the seaside of death. A female shopkeeper advised him: It turns out that the carefree and dissolute life is his destination. Don't try to understand the principles of life and death, because you can't understand it. Gilgamesh responded negatively. The boatman of Utnapishtim was unwilling to ferry him, saying that the Sea of ??Death was impassable to mortals. Gilgamesh insisted on passing and smashed the stone statue of the boatman's patron saint into pieces. The boatman had no choice but to let him cut down more than a hundred pieces of wood to use as oars. As the ship passed through the Sea of ??Death, the oars were swallowed up by the seawater one by one. When the last one was used up, he finally saw the Dilmon Island. coastline. Gilgamesh rowed the boat to the shore with his hands and fell asleep tiredly.
Utnapishtim received him, and Gilgamesh demanded to know the secret of eternal life. The ancestor did not answer him directly, but asked Gilgamesh:
Can we build an eternal house?
Can we stamp ourselves with eternity?
Will brothers be separated forever?
Will the hatred in the world never be eliminated?
Will the river keep flooding?
Can a dragonfly fly on cattails for a lifetime?
The brilliance of the sun cannot shine on his face forever.
There is nothing eternal from ancient times.
A sleeping person is no different from a dead person.
They all have the same image. What’s the difference?
God has prescribed life and death for man,
but
He does not predict the date of death.
Afterwards, he told the story of how he was lucky enough to survive after the gods destroyed the world with a flood - that is to say, the gods granted him the right to eternal life after escaping the flood, but It is a piece of history, obtained by chance. History cannot repeat itself, so humans will never be able to live forever like him. It's just that he was a relatively pious priest at the time, and a god told him the news through the wall, and he was able to escape. However, how did he know that after the flood receded, Zhang himself, the Lord God Enlil, who initiated the flood, would change his mind and grant him immortality instead? After all, it is an unpredictable accident.
But Gilgamesh still did not give up. The helpless ancestor Utnapishtim said to him: So just do this and see if you can overcome sleep. Sleep and death are brothers, and if you can overcome sleepiness, maybe you can overcome death too. However, Gilgamesh soon fell into a deep sleep due to fatigue, and he slept for seven days and seven nights. Utnapishtim said, look how long you have slept. People cannot live forever, please come back. Looking at his lonely back, Utnapishtim's wife felt sympathy and said: He came so far, how could he come back empty-handed? (The only immortal person in mankind is actually a true wife-keeper...) Utnapishtim had no choice but to stop Gilgamesh and ask him to dive into the depths of the sea to get a sacred herb. A grass that rejuvenates people and regains their youth. Gilgamesh immediately dived to the bottom of the sea, obtained the jelly grass, and embarked on his return journey. He wanted to distribute this grass to all the people in Uruk so that everyone could enjoy God's gift together. When passing through a jungle, he fell asleep again due to fatigue and placed the sacred grass at his feet. But then a snake came out of the spring, holding the sacred grass in its mouth and crawled away. Gilgamesh woke up and regretted it. He hurried along the road and found only a layer of skin shed by the snake after eating the divine grass near the spring. Snakes gain youth and can rely on shedding their skin to retain their youth forever every time they are on the verge of death, while humans gain nothing. The original ancestor's eternal life was obtained accidentally, and Gilgamesh's pursuit was also accidentally lost, just like that.
Gilgamesh returned to Uruk in despair. He entered the temple when he saw it and worshiped the gods when he saw him. His only request was that Enzidu be allowed to live for a while, because he still had many things to say to him. explain. God was moved by his piety and resurrected Enzidu's soul. The two good friends finally talked together again. Gilgamesh asked: "What happens after death?" Enzidu said: "I can't say. If I tell you what I saw and heard, you will faint from fear. Gilgamesh insisted on listening, Enzidu could only describe the situation in hell: My body...has long been eaten away by vermin, like an old coat. My body...has long been covered with dust.
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