Egyptian God Vs Gilgamesh Essay
Both Sumerian and Egyptian myths involve life stemming from a “watery abyss” or “Primal sea”.
A constant threat of retribution and a traumatic water experienced incorporated into this.All of the elements(water, air,etc) were separate deities. Humans were “Created” by the original “Sun” god. There is a creator and a destroyer. There is also a mediator.
The differences stem around the reasons the “gods” became angry with the humans or justification for the flood. The forms that the deity show themselves in, and the roles of characters actions in the story. Small cosmetic details(the coffin) exist also.
Gilgamesh was one part man and ⅔ God. He was a ruler who had been oppressing his subjects. When his subjects asked the Gods for a someone to contain Gilgamesh's inappropriate behavior, they created Enkidu, a hairy, savage beast-like creation. After having sex Enkidu loses his “special powers”. Gilgamesh and Enkidu end up fighting and then become friends and proceed to move on to participate in adventures that make them “heroic”. However, after Gilgamesh turns down the Goddess Ishtar’s advances, Ishtar sends the “Bull of Heaven” to slaughter him. However Enkidu and Gilgamesh kill the bull instead.
The Gods kill Enkidu in his part of killing the Bull of Heaven and Humbaba. This makes Gilgamesh realize he will …show more content…
She ends up naked and powerless. She confronts her sister and the ruler of the underworld, the Goddess Ereshkigal. Ishtar tries to seize the throne but is deterred and sentenced to die and have her corpse hung on a nail. The vizier Ninshubur, goe sto the God Enki who takes dirt and creates 2 androgynous beings that received the plant and water of life. The go into the body of the Goddess Ishtar and revive her. Buy she has to provide a substitute for herself. So she offers up her husband and he and his sister split the time
A constant threat of retribution and a traumatic water experienced incorporated into this.All of the elements(water, air,etc) were separate deities. Humans were “Created” by the original “Sun” god. There is a creator and a destroyer. There is also a mediator.
The differences stem around the reasons the “gods” became angry with the humans or justification for the flood. The forms that the deity show themselves in, and the roles of characters actions in the story. Small cosmetic details(the coffin) exist also.
Gilgamesh was one part man and ⅔ God. He was a ruler who had been oppressing his subjects. When his subjects asked the Gods for a someone to contain Gilgamesh's inappropriate behavior, they created Enkidu, a hairy, savage beast-like creation. After having sex Enkidu loses his “special powers”. Gilgamesh and Enkidu end up fighting and then become friends and proceed to move on to participate in adventures that make them “heroic”. However, after Gilgamesh turns down the Goddess Ishtar’s advances, Ishtar sends the “Bull of Heaven” to slaughter him. However Enkidu and Gilgamesh kill the bull instead.
The Gods kill Enkidu in his part of killing the Bull of Heaven and Humbaba. This makes Gilgamesh realize he will …show more content…
She ends up naked and powerless. She confronts her sister and the ruler of the underworld, the Goddess Ereshkigal. Ishtar tries to seize the throne but is deterred and sentenced to die and have her corpse hung on a nail. The vizier Ninshubur, goe sto the God Enki who takes dirt and creates 2 androgynous beings that received the plant and water of life. The go into the body of the Goddess Ishtar and revive her. Buy she has to provide a substitute for herself. So she offers up her husband and he and his sister split the time