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Write 3 page essay on the topic Summerians were deeply pessimistic about their lives and gods.... Do You agree.The poem is generally considered as the initial great literary work. The Gilgamesh histor

Write 3 page essay on the topic Summerians were deeply pessimistic about their lives and gods.... Do You agree.

The poem is generally considered as the initial great literary work. The Gilgamesh history is literary illustrated through the five Sumerian poems concerning ‘Bilgamesh’ the king of Uruk. The independent stories were integrated to form the literary work, The Epic of Gilgamesh. The initial combined versions of the epic called “Old Babylonian” are dated 18th century BC. Just a few tablets of the literary work have survived. The later epic versions are dated between the 13th and th1 10th centuries BC, and are referred to as “He who Sees the Unknown” in the present context. An estimated two thirds of the twelve-tablet literary work has been found. The suitable copies were found in a 17th century library ruins. The library is believed to have belonged to Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.

The first half part of the literary work discusses the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Gilgamesh was the king of Uruk, while Enkidu was a wild man who was developed by the gods to minimize his oppression of the residents of Uruk. The people from Uruk were very pessimistic concerning the leadership style of Gilgamesh. This is because of the hardship that they suffered during this reigning period. There cries to the gods to restore appropriate ruling tactics, resulted in the creation of Enkidu by the gods. However, after the initial fight, the king and Enkidu became good friends. They together initiated a journey destined for the Cedar Mountain to defeat Humbaba. Humbaba was the monstrous guardian to the Cedar Mountain. The duo later on defeated the Bull of Heaven and later killed it. The attack on the Bull of Heaven was because the goddess Ishtar directed it to punish Gilgamesh for ignoring and denying her advances. The Sumerians hence had a pessimistic attitude towards their relationships with the gods. It is morally and religiously wrong for a goddess to request for sexual favors from humans, especially if they are rulers. Humbaba also

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