Did you notice these things?A Deeper Look at the Layers in Gilgamesh

Page 615 (Epic Quality~ society)

•His society has “elders” that give the King counsel… Do we still have something like that today?

Page 616 (Epic Quality~ culture)

•His society has a religion that is ____thiestic.

•Gilgamesh has a patron god.

Page 617 (Diction~ descriptive language)

•“the keeper of the trees”

Page 617 (Significant Numbers)

•“three days” (3 is the number of God)

•Seven (7 is the number of completion)

Page 617 (Guardian of the Threshold)

•A watchman

Page 618 (Trials, Rituals, Foreshadowing)

•The gate’s enchantments•Sacrifice to gods•Three dreams (foreshadowing)•The dreams as a trial

Page 619 (Trials, godly intervention, the cyclical journey)

•“Deus Ex Machina” – godly intervention•Having second thoughts about killing Humbaba•“the third blow”•He returns home only to go on the journey again

Page 619 (the italics)

•Temptress & trials•His friend dies (Call to…)•Crosses the Threshold looking for immortality•Three trials (Scorpian, Shamash, and Siduri)

Page 620 (symbols and diction)

• 7 days and 7 nights he wept•What is the symbol for mortality?• Allusion to THE FLOOD from the Old Testament (Noah)• Diction: What word choice is used to keep the “flood imagery” going? (2nd column)

Page 621 (comment about humans)

•We need proof of things…

Page 622 (God/god(s) give 2nd chances)

•What animal steals the flower?