RELG 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter Epics: Kingu, Siduri, Dilmun
27 Aug 2018
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He abuses his power as a king: he takes sons away from fathers and sleeps with all women the people of u(cid:396)uk did(cid:374)"t like that. The gods heard them complain about gilgamesh and repeated it to anu (god of uruk) and aruru (goddess of creation). They want aruru to create someone who would be equal in strength as. Aruru creates enkidu from water and clay, and in him was the virtue of the god of war, ninurta. He grew up in nature and wilderness: he knew nothing about civilian life (innocent of mankind) He would live with the beasts and ate grass. One day he came face to face with a trapper (someone who captures wild animals). The trapper got scared of him and went to his father, saying that enkidu is the strongest man in the world and immortal from heaven.
