WHO WAS GILGAMES?
According to the legend, Gilgames, who is the king of the city of Uruk, is extremely wise, knowledgeable, wandered, sighted, yellow-eyed, cruel . Lugalbanda, whose father was king before him, then God-lastiri, and his mother is Ninsun Goddess. So one third of it is human and two thirds is God. There are doubts about whether he lived, as there was no written document at the time of Gilgames. However , according to the semi-historical list of kings who ruled before the Flood until 1800 BC , Gilgames is the king of the Uruk city principality in Southern Mesopotamia. This city is one of the five cities that existed again after the Flood. Here the Gods were first considered the son of the Sun God. making someone a king. A kingdom begins with this king. Gilgames is listed as the fifth king of this family . Documents written later show that he competed with the king Agga ( contemporary of Gilgames, according to the king list) of the city of KIS in northern Mesopotamia, and was mentioned among the kings who built and repaired Tummal in the Temple of Goddess Ninlil in Nippur. It is also named on bricks and vases. According to them, he should not be a fantasy. It is estimated that he lived in 2700 BC at the latest. He lived 126 years according to the king list. In this list of kings , the lives of eight kings who lived before the Flood are shown for thousands of years. We see it exactly with the Torah. From the flood then the life expectancy of those who became kings began to shorten slowly. The life of his son Urlugal, who came after Gilgames, is 30 years. The Gilgames saga set an example for the Greek, Indian and Northern European epics that followed. It is full of epic adventures. But Gilgames is not alone in these adventures. Enkidu always companions with him, who, from being a wild man, was civilized by a temple prostitute. It is such a friendship that they can give their lives for each other . Also in the epic, terrible creatures, Gods, people are intertwined; but still the noble subject is human. In this, delusion, loneliness, friendship, love, hatred, revenge, sadness, suffering and fear of death. like all the feelings of humanity are reflected. For this reason , it has preserved its existence as a popular epic in Mesopotamia and neighboring countries for thousands of years, and people of all ages have found themselves in it. After Gilgames died, it was believed that he was a judge in the underworld in the name of the God Anunaki and the Sun God. Prayers were made to him, requests were made with magic and incense (the belief of asking help from a famous dead has reached the saints of our time). Various stories about Gilgames were also made up. One of them is about his birth. The second is his letter to a king. This letter was written by a priest who was excavated in Sul-tantepe in Southeast Anatolia. It was found in his home library. This priest who lived in the 7th century BC. In the found letter, Gilgames asked an unnamed king to have his friend Enkidu make an amulet, in an unimaginable quantity of gold, silver and precious stones. There is no doubt that this is written as a joke or a mockery …
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