emphasis the author puts on the importance of the sexual encounters in Gilgamesh’s journey as king, as well as Enkidu’s experiences with the women in these stories. “I was invited to a wedding banquet, it is the lot of the people to contract a marriage” -This quote from the poem leads me to believe that the people of this heritage, era and setting, believe a marriage to be a form of a contract. Especially when Gilgamesh has an encounter with Lady Ishtar, she then says, “Come, Gilgamesh, be you…
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