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Q: How does the Epic of Gilgamesh portray the gods and their relation to humankind?
  • gods gave him a perfect body, Shamash the glorious sun endowed him with beauty
  • Adad the god of storm endowed him courage
  • the great gods made his beauty perfect, surpassing all others, terrifying like a great wild bull
  • Made him two-thirds god one-third man
  • He was seen as arrogant to the people of Uruk
  • His lust leaves no virgin to her lover, neither the warriors daughter nor the wife of the noble 
  • But he is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute
  • The father of the gods gave him kingship, power to bind and loose to be the darkness and light of the people 
  • Victory in battle where most wont come back from lovely  
  • supremacy over the people 
  • The gods give humankind protectors with the power to make their own decision whither good or bad 
  • they who had stood in the place of the gods like Anu and Enlil, stood now like servants to fetch baked meats in the house of dust to carry cooked meat and cold water from the water-skin
  • Gilgamesh searches for immorality even those the gods have given him immense power he still searches for more 
  • He meets up with someone who also searches for this internal power after the flood
  • The gods don't really seem to care much about the people they set these demi-gods to live with them and protect them but the demi-gods have the power to do what they like 
  • the few that receive eternal life from the gods.  
  • gods seem to create these guardians yet set floods that kill thousands leaving these guardians 
  • the relationship between them and humankind is on the fence they give them guardians but they also take away everything they have not a positive look

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