Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun the Sumerian legendary friend of Gilgamish.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun legendary friend of Gilgamish
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Examples
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Enkidu is civilized by a harlot from the temple of the goddess Inanna.
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The world in which Gilgamesh lives before Enkidu is the world of the me, the world shaped by craftsman Enki, god of clay, inventor of the wedge-shaped imprints of cuneiform, and the mathematics and writing that those marks graved into the world, inventor of irrigation, delineating territory into fields with the inscriptions of trenches.
The Eternal Moment of Modernity Hal Duncan 2007
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Some interpreters have suggested that Gilgamesh's relationship with Enkidu is a homosexual one.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Enkidu is civilized by a harlot from the temple of the goddess Inanna.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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The world in which Gilgamesh lives before Enkidu is the world of the me, the world shaped by craftsman Enki, god of clay, inventor of the wedge-shaped imprints of cuneiform, and the mathematics and writing that those marks graved into the world, inventor of irrigation, delineating territory into fields with the inscriptions of trenches.
Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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Some interpreters have suggested that Gilgamesh's relationship with Enkidu is a homosexual one.
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In this lament he calls Enkidu his brave friend and the "panther of the desert," and refers to their hunts in the mountains, and to their slaughter of the bull of heaven, and to the overthrow of Khumbaba in the forest of cedar, and then he asks him:
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh 1895
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The variation in the writing of the name Enkidu is likewise interesting.
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic Anonymous 1891
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By means of this "play" on the name, which reverts to the compilers of the Sumerian version of the Epic, Gilgamesh was converted into a Sumerian figure, just as the name Enkidu may have been introduced as a Sumerian translation of his Amoritic name. dGish at all events is an abbreviated form of the "Sumerianized" name, introduced by the compilers of the earliest
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic Anonymous 1891
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The now of Enkidu is a present with neither future nor past; when the hunter brings the harlot to him, when she offers herself, he goes willingly with her, to fuck for days in the seemingly endless immediacy of lust, not knowing that this will sunder him forever from his animal existence, his wild hair shaved, his skin oiled as an athlete's.
Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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