Gilgamesh: A Mythical Hero

From the beginning, the myth seems to be an important way to understand the confusion and battle of life. There is a hero in these myths. From myths to myths, stories to stories, heroes have experienced so-called struggles and journeys. Heroes have tremendous power, talent and praise, there is something valuable to the audience, heroicism. However, as time goes on, irrespective of the hero, the character of the hero is still indistinguishable and becomes the same as other protagonists.

The second book of my Sacer-Epic reading tour is the epic of Gilgamesh. This work is considered to be the earliest surviving epic, telling the story of his hero of the same name, the Uruk half-mythical king, Gilgamesh, and his friend Nkidu. It is casting shadows on many subsequent works, including Homer's epics and the Bible. Like many ancient works, Gilgamesh epic finds us from fragmentary sources. Its earliest one is a series of independent Sumerian poems about heroes. After that, more coherent work appeared among the people of Babylon in Cuba, but most of them were lost. The most complete ("standard") version comes from a surviving replica of 12 stone tablets, the best of which is found in the ruins of the Royal Library of Alexandria of Nineveh (the capital of Assyrian suburbs) Iraq Sul)

In various episodes including Gilgamesh epic, several episodes returned to Sumerian prototype, in fact the hero's girugamesh was involved. Even with these episodes without Sumerian fellows, most of the individual themes reflect the origins of Sumerian myths and epics. But in any case, Babylonian poets did not blindly copy the Sumerian language materials. They modified its content and formed its shape according to its temperament and tradition, and only Sumer 's original bare nuclei could be identified. Religious, adventurous hero's heroic fate and his inevitable disillusionment melodrama - regarding the overall epic plot structure - it is definitely not the Sumerians, but the development and achievement of the Babylonians. (History starts with smell, 270)

The fate of a mythical hero contains a goal whose completion will give the hero success and glory. In Gilgamesh, "The fathers of the gods ordered the fate of Gilgamesh" (17). The gods gave Gilgamesh "king's power, such fate", "binding loose power, human darkness and light", and "unrivaled superiority" (17). Therefore, the great fate of Gilgamesh was quickly established by God. Gilgamesh said: "Because my fate was named bricks I did not confirm my name; so I will go to the country where the cedar has been cut off. Memorial to the gods (18) Mythical heroes have decided to name their own, complete their fate.Gilgamesh then went to the forest to defeat the fierce giant Hanvalver, I conquered an empty bull and kept looking for eternal life.The exile of life may not be wasted