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I really do not like this story! The whole thing is based on the animalistic nature of man especially man's pride. Gilgamesh runs his kingdom based on his pride and passion taking all with out regarding others. He takes the lives of others on a whim and rapes the women of the nobles. He and Enkidu fight, just as dogs do to confirm their friendship. Enkidu is "tamed" by sex with a prostitute. The woman is used as a trap for him, as if he is a bear that they were luring by the waterhole with a smelly fish. They live by their pride with the carnal need to show he is "man enough", to show "I'm stronger than the strongest". Of course they can defeat Humbaba, they are the Beast of the beasts! The men although "above" the animals are animals themselves. They are constantly in nature and of nature, in reality and symbolically. After Enkidu's death even Gilgamesh, previously the more "refined" man reverts to a more animalistic nature, rejecting royal clothes for animal skins instead.
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