Gilgamesh Definition

Gilgamesh Sentence Examples

• A divine bull is sent to wage a contest against Gilgamesh, who is assisted by his friend Eabani.

• Gilgamesh, recalling to the goddess the sad fate of those who fall a victim to her charms, rejects the offer.

• At first, indeed, Eabani curses the fate which led him away from his former life, and Gilgamesh is represented as bewailing Eabani's dissatisfaction.

• The sun-god Shamash calls upon Eabani to remain with Gilgamesh, who pays him all honours in his palace at Erech.

• But he was a profoundly interested observer of affairs at home and among 1 The Assyrian term abubu is used of the great primeval deluge (in the Gilgamesh epic), and also of the local floods common in the country.