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Gilgamesh

noun
1.
A legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories.





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"Gilgamesh" Quotes from Famous Books



... boats, flat-bottomed and with high curved ends, seem only to have navigated the Tigris and Euphrates,(1) will hardly command acceptance. But there is no doubt that the heroic personage upon the other face is represented in the familiar attitude of the Babylonian hero Gilgamesh struggling with lions, which formed so favourite a subject upon early Sumerian and Babylonian seals. His garment is Sumerian or Semitic rather than Egyptian, and the mixture of human and bird elements in the figure, though ...
— Legends Of Babylon And Egypt - In Relation To Hebrew Tradition • Leonard W. King


Words linked to "Gilgamesh" :   male monarch, Rex, king


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