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When Gilgamesh wanted to tame the wild man Enkidu, he sent him a woman; she made love with him for six days and seven nights till the wild beasts no longer knew him, and then he began to use language. When Enkidu dies, the distraught Gilgamesh quests for immortality, seeking his friend in the underworld and crossing the River of Death to find the immortal Utnapishtim (Noah). The tragedy seems to begin even before they meet, when Enkidu is civilized by wisdom (a woman), a transformation which leads him to weep and sigh, "I am oppressed by idleness. |
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