GILGAMESH.... The beginning.

Once the I, II and III tablets of Gilgamesh were read I could get an idea of the launguage of the novel. It is evident that we are talking about a very VERY old book. The literature is an epic, it talks about a heroe and all the difficulties he has to go through to accomplish an especific goal, it is narrating a myth that could have some of true facts involved. Throughout this novel I believe there will be a lot of gods involved, of mythical characters and events. Gilgamesh himself has mythical characteristics, he is twice the size of a man, said to be two-third a god and one-third a man. He is the stongest of all, the king. Gilgamesh relates to Ishmael because it talks about the world, the men ad animals interralating with eachother. "Enacting a story".

We will be able to draw conclutions about humanity combining the concepts that Ishmael plots to the conclutions that will be drawned from Gilgamesh. Ishmael talks about humanity righ now, the modern humanity, the one that is destroying the world, after thousands of years of existance. Gilgamesh is presenting a humanity or at least the thoughts, ideas and stories of a humanity thousands of years ago! It is a total different point of view. Gilgamesh's society could be considered Leavers, because they hunt and gather, because they live in the hands of the gods, but they think like Takers, that man should rule the world that is why Gilgamesh is the king. It is the beginning of Taker's thought, because Gilgamesh is not completely man, he is part king. Eventually they will make men the rulers no longer the gods.

I am very excited to read Gilgamech and be able to have a broader idea of the world. !!