The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Myths & LegendsMacmillan, 1989 - 260 pages Fully indexed and containing lavish color illustrations and a wealth of line drawings, this is the most up-to-date, beautiful, and graphically useful reference of its kind on the market today. |
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Page 92
... Gilgamesh's hunters , which is how he came to the attention of the king . Gilgamesh sent a harlot to the water- hole at which Enkidu drank to try to entice him . Enkidu was , not unnaturally , attracted to her , and for six days and ...
... Gilgamesh's hunters , which is how he came to the attention of the king . Gilgamesh sent a harlot to the water- hole at which Enkidu drank to try to entice him . Enkidu was , not unnaturally , attracted to her , and for six days and ...
Page 198
... GILGAMESH , the semi - divine king of Uruk , an important Sumerian city . Enkidu was made by the goddess Aruru at the request of Gilgamesh's subjects , who were worn out by the king's energy . Because he was a natural man , born in the ...
... GILGAMESH , the semi - divine king of Uruk , an important Sumerian city . Enkidu was made by the goddess Aruru at the request of Gilgamesh's subjects , who were worn out by the king's energy . Because he was a natural man , born in the ...
Page 246
... GILGAMESH helped her instead . Utu made the ground swallow up everything fashioned from the tree's timber , because he disapproved of the excessive merriment in Uruk , Gilgamesh's city . Uzume In the Shinto mythology of Japan , the ...
... GILGAMESH helped her instead . Utu made the ground swallow up everything fashioned from the tree's timber , because he disapproved of the excessive merriment in Uruk , Gilgamesh's city . Uzume In the Shinto mythology of Japan , the ...
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