Enkidu’s curse and lament
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Enkidu’s curse and lament is the anguished outpouring in the Epic of Gilgamesh in which the dying Enkidu bitterly denounces his fate and the events that led to his suffering before ultimately reconciling himself to his destiny.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
episode in an epic poem
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lament ⓘ literary motif ⓘ |
| expressesEmotion |
anger
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bitterness ⓘ fear of death ⓘ resignation ⓘ sorrow ⓘ |
| follows |
Enkidu’s illness
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the killing of Humbaba ⓘ the slaying of the Bull of Heaven ⓘ |
| hasAddressee |
Gilgamesh
NERFINISHED
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Shamash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCause |
Enkidu’s participation in killing Humbaba
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Enkidu’s participation in killing the Bull of Heaven ⓘ divine decree of the gods ⓘ |
| hasForm | poetic speech ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
to contrast wildness and civilization through Enkidu’s perspective
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to motivate Gilgamesh’s later journey to Utnapishtim ⓘ |
| hasInterpretation |
as a meditation on human dependence on the gods
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as a reflection on the cost of heroism ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Akkadian ⓘ |
| hasSpeaker | Enkidu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
acceptance of death
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civilization versus wilderness ⓘ divine justice ⓘ fate ⓘ friendship ⓘ mortality ⓘ regret ⓘ |
| includesMotif |
curse of the harlot
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curse of the hunter ⓘ denunciation of civilization ⓘ praise of the harlot ⓘ retraction of a curse ⓘ vision of the underworld ⓘ |
| isKeyEpisodeIn | the development of Mesopotamian views of the afterlife in literature ⓘ |
| isPreservedIn | cuneiform tablets of the Standard Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh ⓘ |
| isTurningPointFor | Gilgamesh’s understanding of mortality ⓘ |
| occursInTablet | Tablet VII of the Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Epic of Gilgamesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedes |
Enkidu’s death
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Gilgamesh’s quest for immortality ⓘ |
| takesPlace |
in Uruk
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on Enkidu’s sickbed ⓘ |
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