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Enkidu

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prop. n.1.the Sumerian legendary friend of Gilgamish.
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Noun1.Enkidu - legendary friend of Gilgamish
Sumer - an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC


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When Gilgamesh wanted to tame the wild man Enkidu, he sent him a woman; she made love with him for six days and seven nights till the wild beasts no longer knew him, and then he began to use language.
A durable fire by Madsen, Catherine / Cross Currents
When Enkidu dies, the distraught Gilgamesh quests for immortality, seeking his friend in the underworld and crossing the River of Death to find the immortal Utnapishtim (Noah).
Geraldine McCaughrean Gilgamesh the Hero by Long, Joanna Rudge / The Horn Book Magazine
The tragedy seems to begin even before they meet, when Enkidu is civilized by wisdom (a woman), a transformation which leads him to weep and sigh, "I am oppressed by idleness.
Teaching mindfully by Ackley, Heather Ann / Academic Exchange Quarterly
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