The Epic of Gilgamesh, by Maureen Gallery Kovacs, tells a story about a God name Gilgamesh and how he was seen to be one of the strongest most almighty Gods in the Mesopotamia culture in the nineteenth century. The Epic of Gilgamesh gives us a sense of history where there is a similarity between the bible and the story The Epic. Gilgamesh who is known to be one of the strongest God there was, we not only got to learn about Gilgamesh but also got a chance to learn about the Mesopotamian culture and their religion as well. After learning about their culture, I found out that their culture was not much different from our culture also for example the males were seen to be dominant and strong leaders and also the division when it comes to males and females and death was also important as well
Women were not seen as much in the Mesopotamian culture unless they were assisting Gilgamesh, Enkidu, or even men period. The men of the Mesopotamian culture felt as though they were dominant because they were stronger and the women in the Mesopotamian society were basically nothing at all they could not even live in the kingdom with the men they had to live outside of the military kingdom. Ishtar, who
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Death to the Mesopotamians was something that they took to be very serious they felt as though death was very dark and just evil and that no matter what happen you cannot avoid death. But that is not with the Mesopotamian culture that is with any culture death is not just something that you can escape. For example, in The Epic of Gilgamesh when Gilgamesh killed Humbaba, then him and Enkidu killed the Bull of Heaven, that then played a huge roll in the death of Enkidu. After the death of Enkidu occurred that is when Gilgamesh starts to lose his self and still didn't believe that Enkidu was dead until he seen worms all over Enkidu body and Enkidu soon turns into nothing but a pile of