Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra.
Gilgamesh goes and meets the Babylonian equivalent of Noah, who lived long ago by that point in the story, so even if you ignored everything else in the poem that clearly establishes that he’s living at some point after Eden, there’s still no way to combine Babylonian and Jewish mythologies without concluding that Gilgamesh and Enkidu are clearly not Adam nor Steve.
But maybe they’re David and Jonathan.
Also Gilgo (we’re tight so that’s what I call him) brought Enkidu in from the wilds by sending a concubine to calm him. If we’re going down this road they were bi and poly at the least.
Historians: if there were individuals who existed that those characters represent they were very good friends and hunting buddies
Like Achilles and Patroclus? Like Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist?
He was gay Beowulf?
Gayowulf.
Ayo
Wolf
You silly scribes and your gay porn…
you can always call it a bromance and say they were just friends :)
Oh they were definitely more than just friends.
Whaaaat? Nooo, can’t be!
And they were roomates
It’s like every day is a sleepover with your best bro! You can even sleep together, cuddle, n&c… As a couple of friends of course :)
How dare you compare this heathenish drivel to the divine truth in the one and only true holy book?
Ikr?
Never disparage the hitchhiker’s guide!
which is which
If you don’t know the difference, you’re obviously a despicable subhuman who deserves to be cruelly massacred.
It’s pretty common to compare plagiarized work to the original content.
Hi. I’m Larry. This is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl.
Wasn’t it Enkidu and Shamhat? Maybe I don’t know my babylonian poetry…
Enkidu and Gilgamesh are the two heroes of the story.
But Shamhat is a sacred prostitute who has sex with and thereby “civilises” Enkidu.
Yes, but the similarities between Adam & Eve and the babylonion texts are between Enkidu and Shamhat, not Enkidu and Gilgamesh.
Fair enough. I think this meme is just shitposting by implying a romance between Gilgamesh and Enkidu. I wouldn’t read too deep into it.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu absolutely fucked like crazy, what version did you read?
I’ve read André Finet’s translation.
I mean, I guess, but then she’s actually demonstrably wrong :)
Some scholars do actually think there are homoerotic themes. It’s debated.
Right, but homoerotic themes in the poem in general is not the same thing as the story of Adam and Eve being inspired by a story of homosexual romance, because, well, it’s inspired by a heterosexual story. In fact, Assyria (and Zoroastrianism) is typically regarded as quite homophobic.
Sorry, this is a shitpost, and I am here debating academics :) Carry on!
It’s David and Nathaniel, not… wait…
