HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Humbaba, Culture Hero, Liminality
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Prometheus): built the wall which you see today here in uruk . Divine, but also dreams show his status. Plot: process of g acquiring social humanity. No question whether strong enough to rule. : not socialized into humanity, bcs 2/3 divine. Monstrously human problem for city - contradiction. Like you but with bodily constraints removed. : enkidu a humane animal: thinks of group another contradiction, what marks him as humane is that he breaks the hunters traps. Matchless strength has sex with all the women. Gilgamesh is so unconstrained that he does not understands the constraints of death. Akkadians develop the contrast of nature vs culture they made the sumerian more complex they took inkudu who was a minor character, into gilgamesh"s alter ego, and they made gilgamesh"s problem with death worse. What the akkadians wrote was the gilgamesh epic, but the sumerians just had separate plays.
