The first tablet of the standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh opens with the people of Uruk complaining to the gods that their king Gilgamesh is a tyrant, prompting the birth goddess Aruru to pinch off clay and shape it into Enkidu, a wild man raised among the animals of the steppe to be Gilgamesh's equal and check. A trapper spots Enkidu and, unable to overcome him by force, brings the temple prostitute Shamhat to seduce and civilize him, teaching him bread, beer and human ways before he sets out for Uruk to confront the king.
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This source names Babylonians directly: "The first tablet of the standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh opens with the people of Uruk complaining to the gods that their king Gilgamesh is a tyrant, prompting the birth goddess Aruru to pinch..."
Source The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform TextsAndrew R. George
This source names Gilgamesh directly: "of the standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh opens with the people of Uruk complaining to the gods that their king Gilgamesh is a tyrant, prompting the birth goddess Aruru to pinch off clay and..."
Source The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform TextsAndrew R. George
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Andrew R. George, Oxford University Press, 2003Tablet I, the creation of EnkiduQuote, Tablet I, the creation of Enkidu
The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: narrative epic recounting the creation of Enkidu.
Epic of Gilgamesh (Wikipedia)
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