Chapter XVII
readx;?? In 2939 BC, King Gish Enmei Balageshe attacked, and St. Tumus took the lead in capturing King Kish, Enmei Barageshe, on the battlefield. St. Tumus www.biquge.info also went down in history for this achievement.
Then King Aga of Kish came to power and bowed to Uruk.
Gilgamesh, reigned: 21 BC, 2929-2908 BC.
Legend has it that Gilgamesh's father was a god invisible to ordinary people---- Curapa > In 2929 BC, Gilgamesh succeeded to the throne of Uruk and was the fifth king of the First Dynasty of Uruk.
Gilgamesh was inexperienced, and Uruk began to lose the upper hand in the confrontation with Kish, and had to pay tribute to Kish.
The Jonggil Gamesh is the highest achievement of ancient Babylonian literature, written in cuneiform on twelve clay tablets, about 3,000 lines, written between the 19th and 16th centuries B.C., and is the oldest surviving epic of mankind.
Gilgamesh was the king of the Uruk dynasty in Sumer after the Great Flood, and there are heroic legends about him in Sumerian myths and legends, which were spread among the people in the form of folk oral transmission at that time, and by the time of the Babylonian kingdom, people processed and compiled it to form a complete mythological epic.
It is said that most of this epic is a Sumerian epic, and it is customary to call the Gyalgamesh the Babylonian epic, but in fact it is the result of a joint creation between the Sumerians and the Babylonians. Because of its vivid description, its popularity, and its preservation after the Assyrian invasion, the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal cherished the book and ordered the epic to be engraved in cuneiform on clay tablets to make a clay tablet, which was hidden in the palace library of the capital city of Nineveh, so that we can see this precious literary masterpiece today.
Yonggil Gamesh
It mainly tells the story of Gilgamesh and Enqidu.
Gilgamesh was the king of Uruk, two-thirds god and one-third man, he was the embodiment of perfection and wisdom as a man of great physique, valor and unyielding, clever and powerful. But he was not enlightened, and often oppressed the people and deceived the people's daughters, for which the people began to complain and prayed to the gods for help. The gods believed that Gilgamesh was not a worthy opponent, so they were looking for provocation everywhere, and the gods decided to have the goddess of creation, Aruru, create a warrior to contend with him.
As soon as the two heroes met, they fought inseparably, and the victory and defeat were inseparable, so they recognized each other as heroes and became brothers, and they have been inseparable ever since.
Since the war between Gilgamesh and Enqidu, he has changed his ways and become a righteous man who fights violence and peace. At that time, there was a demon Humba who guarded the cedar forest in the Lebanese forest, and he was cruel and cruel, killing innocents, and daring to kidnap the goddess Ishtar (Ianna, the patron saint of Uruk) and imprison her on the top of the mountain. Gilgamesh was determined to eliminate the harm of the people and crusade against Humbaba, but when Enkidu learned of this, he thought that his strength was too small and was unwilling to act, but Gilgamesh insisted on going his own way, and Enqidu had to go with him.
They fought to the death, and only after they were protected by the sun god Utu (called Utu in Sumeria and Shamash in Babylon) that they eliminated Humbaba and rescued Ishtar.
At that time, the threat of flooding was very serious, and the two river basins flooded every year. King Aga of Kish, who believed that he was the lord of a great state and had great power, did not want to contribute to the construction of the dike, but forced the weak Uruk. In fact, Uruk was not weak at all at that time, and this should be an epic created by Uruk.
King Agath of Kish sent an envoy to Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, to send someone to dig a well and repair a ditch for Kish, and threatened that if he did not comply, he would meet with soldiers. Gilgamesh convened a council of city elders to decide whether to surrender or surrender, and the council advocated surrender. He also convened a citizens' assembly, which advocated rejecting Kish's demands and resisting.
As the lord of Uruk, Gilgamesh responds calmly and is not afraid of power. The poem portrays and celebrates Gilgamesh as the leader and hero of a small city-state beloved by the people.
Thinking that even King Kish was captured alive, can it still be said that Uruk is weak?
There is a reason why Aga oppressed Uruk, that is, he wanted to weaken Uruk's power.
Later, King Kish did attack, but he was defeated by Enkidu, and Aga was captured alive, and according to the epic, he was released, but many of the states no longer recognized Kish's royal power. And recognize the supremacy of Uruk.
This story may not be true, because if it had been released, then the Sumerian royal table would not have been shown only up to Agha, but what about his descendants? As for the release of artistic processing belonging to posterity, the logic of history is not considered.
The outcome of the war was unexpected, but it was also reasonable, after all, historically, the war between Kish and Uruk has been more defeated than victorious. Although Uruk has only just come out of the chaos, Uruk still shows great strength on the battlefield.
In 2914 BC, Gilgamesh captured Kish. Uruk became the new political center of Mesopotamia.
King Humban Hapua I of the former Elamite dynasty submitted to Gilgamesh after his victory.
Since then, there has been a tradition that when the Sumerian monarch is strong, the Elamite will submit to him, and if the rule is chaotic, the Elamite will refuse to submit. It seems that there was an easy unanimity within the Elamite, and often the opinion of the king as the unanimity of the states, in contrast to the scattered Sumerians.
Gilgamesh's bravery attracted the goddess Aena and the goddess courted the hero, but Gilgamesh knew that the goddess was watery and rejected her. Deeply humiliated and embarrassed, the goddess asked her father, the moon goddess Nanna-Suen, for help. Nanna built a bull and fought a great battle with Gilgamesh and Enkidu, and the hero fought the bull and killed it.
In fact, the union of Iana and King Uruk is tradition, and in fact it is the king and the priestess who are united, which is a respect for religious feelings. Gilgamesh's iconoclastic behavior reflects the view of disrespecting spirits and gods, so the epic mentions God's punishment for him.
Nanna decided to punish Nanna for his actions that violated Nanna's majesty, and Enkidu fell ill and soon died. Gilgamesh was filled with grief, and he looked back on everything he had done with Enkidu, from the time he had fought to become friends, and he was overwhelmed with grief but could not do anything about it.
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