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Dr. Dylan Johnson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Ancients
Adam and Eve

And there we have to jump to another very famous myth, that of Gilgamesh.

The Ancients
Adam and Eve

Gilgamesh, most people wouldn't associate as a creation story of any source, but there is a creation in there.

The Ancients
Adam and Eve

It's the creation of Enkidu, isn't it?

The Ancients
Adam and Eve

And if you remember that story from the standard Babylonian version, Enkidu is also molded from clay and breath of life.

The Ancients
Adam and Eve

We can kind of steal from the biblical there, but in some way animated.

The Ancients
Adam and Eve

So Enkidu is the wild man companion of Gilgamesh.

The Ancients
Adam and Eve

And he's human, but he's kind of a Cro-Magnon.

The Ancients
Adam and Eve

He doesn't understand society.

The Ancients
Adam and Eve

He doesn't wear clothing.

The Ancients
Adam and Eve

He drinks from the rivers.

The Ancients
Adam and Eve

He's kind of childlike, right?

The Ancients
Adam and Eve

So we're recalling this... He's kind of a proto-man.

The Ancients
Adam and Eve

The way that they describe Enkidu is the same way that they describe the first humans created in Atrahasis, and that's very purposeful.