Gilgamesh is an epic story about the "king" that resides in all of us both as benefactor and destroyer. He was the king of Uruk. It is a story of a person who is feared and honored. A person who loves and hates. A person who wins and loses. A person who loves life.
             Gilgamesh, two-thirds god and one-third human, is the greatest King on earth and the strongest super-human that ever existed; however, he is young and oppresses his people harsly. The people call out to the sky god Anu, the chief god of the city, to help them. In response, Anu creates a wild man, Ekidu, out in the harsh and wild forests surrounding Gilgamesh's lands. This brute, Enkidu has the strength of dozens of wild animals; he is to serve as the subhuman rival to the superhuman Gilgamesh.
             Gilgamesh was checking trapes in the forest, and discovers Enkidu running naked with the wild animals. He rushed to his father with the news, and he advises him to go into the city and take one of the temple harlots, Shamhat. When she see Enkidu, she was to offer herself sexually to the wild man. If he submits to her, the trapper says, he will lose his strength and his wildness. She offered herself to him and he submits to her, instantly losing his strength and wildness, but gains understanding and knowledge.
             This reminds e of Adam & Eve in the garden. God commanded them not to eat off the tree, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die (Genesis 3:3). And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die (Genesis 3:4). And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be disered to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. This was the fall of man.
             Another similarity was the "Flood". Ea whispered these words from a dream; "Oman of Shurrupak, son of Ubara-Tutu; tear do
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