World Lit- Gilgamesh
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| Who is part God and part human and in what measure? | Gilgamesh is 2/3 god and 1/3 human
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| Who is Enkidu? | The hairy bodied man the gods send to fight Gilgamesh
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| Enkidu and Gilgamesh team up and who do they fight? | Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven
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| 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
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| Incantation | a set of words chanted or sung as part of a religious ritual
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| Lament | to express grief or sorrow
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| Ominous | threatening; signaling evil to come
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| Deluge | an unusually heavy, destructive flood
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| twelve leagues | roughly thirty six mile
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| 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.
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| Allot | to give as a share or portion
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| Transit | passage
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| Musing | thoughtfully questioning or meditating muse
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| Sloughed | cast off; shed
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| Teem | to be filled to overflowing
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| Firmament | the vault of the heavens; the sky
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| Babel | loud, unpleasant noise
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| Beam | the width of a ship
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| Vault that covers the abyss | the sky as it stretches across the depths below
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| 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
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| Punt Poles | poles that are pushed against the bottom of a body of water in order to propel a boat
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| Ballast | heavy material placed into the bottom of a boat to enhance stability
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| Ordain | to establish by decree or law
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| Stupor | a dazed condition, almost without sense or feeling
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