RELS 1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fertile Crescent, Ninhursag, Enkidu
23 Nov 2016
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Humans belong not only to to nature but also to the divine however, limited to their mortal selves. Where the first civilization began on the side of the world where iraq is now was called the fertile crescent. Ways of writing were through ideograms in the epic of gilgamesh, we find independent evidence of biblical truth outside of. We get a clear picture of what gilgamesh was like and how a king and his people should have a relationship that does not bring fear into their community. Unfortunately, the clay tablets of the epic are damaged at this point. Gilgamesh is a rapist, and a dictator. Anu, the sky-god, father of all the other gods, hears the peoples prayer to save them. He calls to the goddess aruru, who created humans. He tells her to make another human who will be able to take on gilgamesh.
