Enkidu fights a lion
Enkidu is a character from Sumerian mythology, the king's adventures mate and mythical hero Gilgamesh.
In view of the strength and vanity of Gilgamesh, the goddess Aruru creates a creature capable of beating the Sumerian king in battle. Then form Enkidu from the clay and send it to the earth.
In the battle, both warriors become friends and share dangerous adventures until Enkidu dies after a disease inflicted by a divine punishment for killing Humbaba, the protector of the Cedar Forest. After the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh goes to visit Utnapishtim believing that he will be able to give him immortality.
In the myth of Inanna, appears representing agriculture, while his rival Dumuzi represents livestock. Finally the goddess chooses the shepherd above the farmer. Dialectical antinomy, ever since, between the countryside and the village
Enkidu appears as a primitive, uncivilized and even practicing beast, although he is a positive character who becomes a companion of the hero. It represents Nature and rural and peasant life in front of the Civilization and urban values represented by his friend Gilgamesh.
Enkidu or Eabani was a primitive and wild man, who lived covered with animal skins. He abandoned his task of shepherding animals in the city of Uruk after being seduced by a priestess of Ishtar. He faced Gilgamesh in a fight, but after this, they became friends and fought together against the Bull of the Sky (Khumbaba) and defeated him. The two collaborated in the rebirth of the city and its strengthening; by their complementarity they made progress and renew the Chaldean-Babylonian culture about 5000 years ago. Gilgamesh's clash with the priests and some differences with the practices of the shrine of Ishtar, made them invoke the gods and brought diseases and many problems in society. As a result of this Enkidu or Eabani died. The death of his friend was a blow to Gilgamesh who tried to understand the immortality of the soul, traveling to Burgenland in Austria, place of the wisdom school of the priest Utnapishtim, but in spite of not being able to obtain his initiation in this cult, was offered a partial initiation that would help him to understand the death of his friend, being able to communicate with him, despite his physical death, and to advance in the knowledge of the individuality and the culture of the personality. Both were at the forefront of their time recovering lost qualities of humanity. His stage was the beginning of the transition from East to West. * This paragraph is an extract and summary of Luigi Morelli's "Aristotelian and Platonic" Book. Bibliography
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