Dr. Dylan Johnson
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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
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.
The Ancients
Adam and Eve
He's what's called the Lulu Amelu, the primordial man.
The Ancients
Adam and Eve
And in that story, it's through a woman, this time a prostitute named Shamhat, that Enkidu is brought into the world of civilization, and explicitly through the act of sex, that he gains consciousness.