A villain, a vicious female supporting actress who is popular and hates her, is usually indispensable in TV series with emotions as the main line.
And this ancient epic gives John the feeling of a modern, bloody idol drama, and I don’t know how to complain about it.
Sure enough, the subsequent plot was as John expected, and the goddess Ishtar came to Gilgamesh, came to him, and asked him to be her companion.
Then he was rejected by Gilgamesh righteously and insisted that the goddess's reputation was not very good, and she abused all her former lovers. She had noble character and had already had the partner of Enqidu. It was impossible.
From His.
So the goddess felt that her divine character and dignity had been greatly insulted, so she borrowed the bull of heaven from the king of the gods, the god of the sky, from Anu, the god of the sky, to revenge Gilgamesh and his kingdom.
John laughed in his heart, isn't this similar to the plot of the story of the gods in Journey to the West where the immortal mounts always go down to the world to cause trouble for demons?
Gilgamesh and Enchidu were both very angry about the bull of heaven that brought disaster to the world and caused famine to the earth, and after killing the bull, he sacrificed his heart to Shamash. This god
It is the sun god believed in by people in the Mesopotamian Basin and the brother of the goddess of Venus Ishtar. It is usually regarded as the three stars together with his father, the moon god Nanna.
Because unlike my sister Ishtar, Shamash, also known as Utu in Sumerian, is also the God of Justice, and is regarded as the "judge of heaven and the world"; He defeated the night and the cold, and his glory made everything
Those who advocate evil are chaotic, and they are like the omnipresent "legal gate".
So both Gilgamesh and Enchi both believed that Shamash would uphold justice and fairness and would not be biased towards His sister, Goddess of Venus.
But is this really the case?
Ishtar, who witnessed the murder of the Sky Bull of Anu, the god of the sky, knew that he was in trouble and stood on the high wall of Uruk, cursed Gilgamesh.
Enchido tear off the bull's right thigh and threw it on Ishtar's face and said: "If I can touch you, this is what I should do to you and tie your guts to you
by your side.”
Seeing this, John couldn't help but twitch. Isn't this a living scene of a vicious female supporting actress being slapped in the face by the "female protagonist"?
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The death of the bull of heaven ultimately angered the gods, the king of gods, the queen of gods, Iya and Shamash, who is considered absolutely justice, both declared that Gilgamesh or Enchi must be executed for killing the bull.
Even though he was the God of Justice, Shamash still inevitably violated his duties and favored his sister and the God King Anu.
Enchi is well aware of the power of the gods, and out of his love for Gilgamesh, he is willing to replace this punishment.
Not long after, Enchidu was indeed seriously ill and died. Gilgamesh felt very sad. As a hero, he finally realized the horror of death and sought God's help.
After crossing mountains and seas, Gilgamesh killed the lion one after another, persuaded the Scorpion couple to explore in the dark for twelve days, and finally arrived at a garden.
Seeing this, John has a sense of déjà vu in Western mythology such as Greek mythology, where the gods test the mortal heroes' sense of déjà vu.
In the garden, according to the arranged plot, Siduri, the ferryman of the gods, appeared. She is a "lady of ale", the goddess of wisdom related to fermentation (especially beer and wine), and this goddess brings Gilga to the
Mesh brought to the home of the only survivor from the Great Flood, and the immortal Utnabistim.
The latter's existence is somewhat similar to the role of a wise man or a prophet. Utnapishtim said that the reason why he was able to live forever was that he received special care from God during the Great Flood. It was futile for ordinary people to pursue eternal life. He also told Gilgamesh.
To be immortal, one must remain awake forever in the trials of the gods.
Smith pointed to this passage and said:
"Our experts have found that there seems to be a record of a great flood of destruction in the ancient civilization legends of countries around the world. So we speculate that this flood may have actually happened in the ancient and unknowable era.
Among the myths of Sumer and Babylon, there are also records of building arks to avoid the flood, which shows that the Bibles of Judaism and Cithi are obviously inherited from ancient Babylonian myths."
John nodded. The allusion of Dayu's flood control in his previous life as a Middle-earth man, he naturally could not be more familiar with it. The story of the Great Bible flood was leveraged by the convenience of the massive invasion of Western culture in those years. He also understood Qiqi.
Eighty-eight.
In addition, it seems that many civilizations have legends or records about this great flood of destruction.
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Despite being warned by Utnabistim, the survivor of the flood, Gilgamesh fell asleep in the subsequent challenges and slept for seven days, thus losing the opportunity for immortality.
Just when Gilgamesh thought he had lost his chance of immortality and was disheartened, but the turn of the situation was turning, Utnabistim told him that even if he could not pass the test to obtain immortality, there was a plant called the Eternal Grass in the world.
, after eating, you can live forever, and he can also use the eternal grass to restore his youth.
After learning that there is a fairy grass that can regain youth and immortality, it gave Gilgamesh new hope. He jumped into the sea to search and finally found the legendary fairy grass, but who knew he relaxed
Be alert, when I was bathing in the water spring, the fairy grass I found after working hard to eat was stolen by an old snake.
Smith stopped the slide, pointing to this explanation:
"Walker, do you feel familiar with this story?"
John nodded and smiled:
"Indeed, the big snake in the Bible that seduced Adam and Eve to steal the forbidden fruit was exactly the same as the story here."
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After eating the fairy grass, the old snake immediately took off a layer of skin and became energetic. It was obvious that it enjoyed the fairy grass to restore youth and immortality, so Gilgamesh was discouraged and returned to Uruk City helplessly.
At this time, he missed his deceased friend Eunqidu even more, so he asked for God's help to meet the ghost of Eunqidu.
He asked Enqidu to tell him the "laws of the earth". Under Enqidu's warning, the human hero realized that man could never live forever.
After that, Gilgamesh became a wise king, guiding and governing his city-state until his death.
After watching this original epic "Gilgamesh", John sighed in his heart. The name is an epic that exhorted later emperors, but for mortals, he could feel the kind of birth as a mortal, and was born to the public.
God controls fate.
"How is it, do you have any ideas?"
John sighed and said:
"Under the rule of the gods, the realm of the gods will not be touched by mortals. This is true in both the West and the East. Therefore, the East has ancient alchemists and qi refiners who pursue the achievement of "Immortals".
, and stepping on the corpses of the gods, they have successful examples.”
Then Smith said to him with a hint of fanaticism on his face:
"Yes, this is also the realm that we Hydra have always pursued. The Gilgamesh epic was written by later generations, and it has a certain degree of authenticity, but many key areas have been described dramatically, such as
According to our experts, relying on the few obscure records of Gilgamesh in the ruins of Sumer and Babylon, we found that this hero king probably did not choose to surrender to fate and become a human king and die of old age, as was sung in the epic.
What is more likely to be his choice to resist the gods, and even trigger the cause of the Sumerian gods' dusk!"
John was shocked when he heard this. Unexpectedly, Smith and the Hydras actually discovered the truth about some ancient god wars and fall?