UGC 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading: Enkidu, Humbaba
4 Apr 2016
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In genesis, women were portrayed as a temptation used to entice men to commit wrongdoing. When god placed adam and eve into the garden of eden, he forbad them eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, adam"s wife, eve saw that the tree [was] good for food, that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make [one] wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate causing both their eyes to be open. Their temptation now came from within, making them more human (genisis 3:6). Similarily in the epic of gilgamesh, the harlot was a woman sent to seduce enkidu because foiled all of the trapper"s snares in the forest, not allowing the trapper to catch any animals.
