The Epic of Gilgamesh is a rather short book, but by far the best book I've had to read at Montreat yet. All my other books have been theological in nature, hard to understand, and just flat out boring. So let me thank you for making me read a good book. The book begins with a person praising all the deeds of Gilgamesh. The person says that he is all knowing and that he has no match. Gilgamesh was more than a man he was created by the Gods. Another man is also created called Enkidu, he was created out of clay by a goddess and meant to be Gilgamesh's equal. He is one with the animals but then loses that gift when he lay with a harlot. There is also a great flood sent by the gods due to the uproar of mankind, but before the gods destroyed mankind one man knew of the flood and built a boat to ride it out. Some of the stories in this book are very familiar to those in the first book of the bible, Genesis.
             The main character in this story is of course the title character Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh was created by the gods, much like Adam was created by god. Unlike Adam, Gilgamesh was made by many gods, and had no equal. Gilgamesh was given by the gods a perfect body, Shamash the sun god gave him beauty, Adad the god of storms gave him unmatched courage and bravery, the gods had made him perfect in every way. He was two thirds god and one third man. Adam was all man and had no special power, and was told by god that if he ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil that he would die. Adam would watch over the garden, while Gilgamesh was ruler over all that he could see. Gilgamesh was king of Uruk. In Uruk Gilgamesh built walls that were so great, no army could break them, Uruk was the greatest city the world had ever seen and Gilgamesh ruled over all of it.
             No one anywhere could equal the strength or might of Gilgamesh. Eventually his own people in Uruk started to mutter. They believed he took too much. He
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