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In the Middle Eastern culture of that time, everyone was pretty much bisexual. They didn't have the labels or taboos on sex that we have today.
While there is no explicit mention of Gilgamesh and Enkidu having sexual relations with each other, it is hinted and many scholars believe that they do have a relationship as more than just friends.
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How Is The Journey of Gilgamesh an Epic?
It is an epic journey full of adventures and misadventures; it has 2 heroes (it should have at least one); the heroes undergo a vital psychophysical transformation.
Are bisexuals cool?
yes, well at least I think so every bisexual i have ever met was AWESOME
Does The Epic of Gilgamesh teaches us about the barbarism of Mesopotamian society?
Does the epic of Gilgamesh suggest that Mesopotamian society was uncivilized? I don't really think so. It was probably the most sophisticated, technologically advanced socitey of its day. Certainly Gilgamesh's behaviour at the start of the epic was a little barbaric, but the epic makes it clear that this behaviour was unacceptable. It also seems to suggest that dangerous journeys of conquest are not ideal, pandering more to the hubris of the king than the good of his people. Furthermore, the story of Enkidu describes civilization as a powerful and positive influence on the former wild man. If anyone is barbaric in the epic it is the chief gods for destroying humanity with a flood. Unlike the biblical equivalent, however, they are strongly repremanded and criticized for this action. Finally, the production of such a momentus literary work as the epic itself is the best argument for the sophistication and humanistic values of at least one educated subsegment of Mesopotamian society in the late second millennium BCE.
Was The Epic of Gilgamesh composed at about the same time as the poems of Homer?
No. Gilgamesh was originally composed in the Sumerian times and passed through the Babylonian and Assyrian before being lost until recently. The estimate is around 2000 B.C. Homer's epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were written in the times of Ancient Greece. The estimate for them are in the 800-700 B.C. So the Epic of Gilgamesh is at least 1000 years older than Homer's epic poems.
How many innocents died in the Holocaust?
None of those killed (with the possible exception of some of the homosexuals) had been charged with any crime or convicted of anything ...so at least 6,000,000
Which state in the United States contains the most homophobes?
i did a little research and worked out Oklahoma has the least rights for homosexuals, followed by Idaho, Utah, Alabama and south Carolina but then there's Ohio....... but def Ohio not sure bout the others
What was First story ever written?
First story known is Epic of Gilgamesh, by Sumerians. It was written circa 2000 B.C. At the time when Book of Genesis took it's contemporary form, the world was filled with Ancient Chinese, Egyptian ( Book of the Dead), Indian and last but not least, Greece literature.
What are some specific biblical allusions in the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The epic of Gilgamesh is similar to Noah by the adventure; Noah had to build an ark but Gilgamesh had other ways to go about on his adventures.
Which is older the story of Noah or the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The Sumerian and Babylonian versions were written down before the Biblical version of the flood but they may have the same cultural memory to thank as a point of origin. The stories were passed down for hundreds of years as oral retelling so there's no positive way to say which one edged out the others. Through literary analysis it is assumed in Middle Eastern scholarship that Gilgamesh's Utnapishtim preceded the Bible's Noah. See the Related Links for "Noah's Flood and the Gilgamesh Epic" The origin of the idea that the Gilgamesh epic came first was through the promoters of the now discredited Documentary Hypothesis which contained anti-biblical evolutionary presuppositions. As the above link details it is more likely that Gilgamesh was a corrupted version of the Biblical account rather than the other way around. The other possibility (which can be also simultaneously correct) is of course that Gilgamesh is a corrupted version of the true event. Every culture has their own ancient flood legends, many with uncanny similarities to the Biblical account. These cannot all have copied , as Gilgamesh may have, from the Biblical record, but certainly they reflect 'cultural memory' of a true event in the distant past. _______________________________________ Actually, I have to disagree with the answer provided above. The Gilgamesh flood story is clearly dependent upon the Atrahasis epic, or a common precursor or variant of this tale (See The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic by Tigay). Although we cannot be certain, the flood story was probably added to the Gilgamesh epic when it was standardised in the early 2nd millennium BCE. The oldest extant copu of Atrahasis is dated to the old Babylonian period - around 1700 BCE. Consequently, it is ludicrous to argue that there is any literary dependence by either Atrahasis or Gilgamesh on Genesis. Genesis is closer in content to Atrahasis than Gilgamesh, so even if Mosaic authorship of Genesis was granted (nearly all scholars, however, date Genesis to the 5th or 6th centuries BCE) it would still be at least two hundred years too late.
How many homosexuals and physically challenged persons died in the holocaust?
More than one million gay Germans were targeted, of whom at least 100,000 were arrested and 50,000 were serving prison terms as "convicted homosexuals. An estimated 5,000 to 15,000 of those sentenced were incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps. It is unclear how many of the 5,000 to 15,000 eventually perished in the camps. Lesbians were not normally treated as harshly as homosexual men: they were labeled "anti-social", but were rarely imprisoned for engaging in homosexuality. murder of an estimated 275,000 people with disabilities.
Why should we care about the poem Gilgamesh 3000 years later?
I am not claiming to know the answer. However I will just record why reading Gilgamesh was important to me. First of all, I learned that, not 3,000, but 5,000 years later humanity has not changed as much as we like to think. We are still the same types of people with the same longings and needs. We like to think of ourselves as having changed and evolved, at least mentally, and thus are somehow better than our ancestors. Fortunately by reading ancient texts, we come to realize that the human experience is not much different than it was so long ago. We are after all only humans interacting with nature. Thus I would say reading Gilgamesh gives one a perspective of time and the human condition within it. These are just some thoughts, I look forward to other responses.
How many homosexuals are over sixty years old?
There is no way to answer this question. Scientists believe there are between 4 and 10 percent of the population is gay/lesbian and at least another 25 percent bisexual. If the worlds population is 6,697,254,041 that means a minimum for gays of 267,890,161(4%).How many are over 60, I don't know how to determine that.
