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World Lit- Gilgamesh
Question | Answer |
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Who is part God and part human and in what measure? | Gilgamesh is 2/3 god and 1/3 human |
Who is Enkidu? | The hairy bodied man the gods send to fight Gilgamesh |
Enkidu and Gilgamesh team up and who do they fight? | Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven |
The Gods need to choose between Gilgamesh and Enkidu to kill one of them-who do they choose and why? | Enkidu-because he is all human |
Incantation | a set of words chanted or sung as part of a religious ritual |
Lament | to express grief or sorrow |
Ominous | threatening; signaling evil to come |
Deluge | an unusually heavy, destructive flood |
twelve leagues | roughly thirty six mile |
Carnelian, lapis lazuli, haematite, agate | gemstones of various colors. carnelian is red or reddish-brown, lapis lazuli is deep blue, haematiteis a dull metal shape, and agate often has multicolored stripes. |
Allot | to give as a share or portion |
Transit | passage |
Musing | thoughtfully questioning or meditating muse |
Sloughed | cast off; shed |
Teem | to be filled to overflowing |
Firmament | the vault of the heavens; the sky |
Babel | loud, unpleasant noise |
Beam | the width of a ship |
Vault that covers the abyss | the sky as it stretches across the depths below |
Cubits | ancient units of measure, originally equal to the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. length ranges from 17 to 22 inches |
Punt Poles | poles that are pushed against the bottom of a body of water in order to propel a boat |
Ballast | heavy material placed into the bottom of a boat to enhance stability |
Ordain | to establish by decree or law |
Stupor | a dazed condition, almost without sense or feeling |