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The Epic of Gilgamesh

  this is the story of a man who rule the mankind and reject the death long time ago,before  the civilization we know

  The story follows Gilgamesh, a young and handsome Uruk. Gilgamesh was the son of Ninsun, a goddess, and Lugalbanda, a priest-king. Wanting for nothing, he grew up spoiled, arrogant and cruel. He spends his time beating the other men of Uruk in fights and taking many women to bed, including the wives of other men – as royalty and the son of a goddess, he feels he is entitled.

  The people of Uruk, terrorized by Gilgamesh, and unable to do anything because of his royal and divine status, cry out to the king of heaven, Anu, to help them with the young king.

  

  In response, the gods send Enkidu, a wild man who lives in the desert, to Uruk. Enkidu lives in the wilds, side by side with the animals when he encounters a priestess named Shamhat, who partially civilized him – she teaches him how to eat like a human being. Enkidu then heads to Uruk.

   There, he meets Gilgamesh and challenges him to a fight. They fight day and night, but eventually Gilgamesh wins. However, in the process, he begins to learn humility and becomes best friends with Enkidu.

  The pair then decide to go on a great adventure. First, they go to the “Forest of Cedar” (which may be today’s Lebanon, known for its cedar trees), and fight the monster Humbaba, which the gods have set over the forest.

  They then encounter Ishtar, the goddess of love, war and sex, and who reputedly can seduce any man alive – but not Gilgamesh, who rejects her advances.

  This angers the goddess, who then asks a fellow deity to release the mighty “Bull of Heaven” so it can attack and kill Gilgamesh.

This he does, but Gilgamesh and Enkidu team up and kill the Bull after a mighty struggle. This angers all of the gods, for the Bull is their mightiest creature, and as punishment, they cause Enkidu to die of the injuries sustained in the fight. Gilgamesh almost dies of grief at the loss of his friend.

The death of Enkidu not only wounds Gilgamesh but causes him to worry about his own immortality. He begins a search to find the secret of eternal life.

He looks for a man named Utnapishtim, who is reputed to be immortal, and survived a great flood which overtook the world many years before.

After much searching, Gilgamesh finds Utnapishtim, who tells the future king that he must accept his mortality, which he does. Gilgamesh then returns to Uruk, where he rules as a good and wise king for 126 years.

source:https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/12/29/epic-of-gilgamesh/

the real script "the epic of gilgamesh" the first fairy tale in the world from 2000 BC 

QUESTION

1.BASED ON SECOND PARAGRAPH ''........nothing, he grew up spoiled, arrogant ........."WHAT IS THE ANTONYM OF THE UNDERLINED WORD

2.WHY THE GODS WANT TO KILL GILGAMESH?

3.WHO IS ENKIDU?

4.WHAT IS THE MAIN IDEA OF PARAGRAPH FOUR?

UGLY DUCKLING

Mummy Duck lived on a farm. In her nest, she had five little eggs and one big egg. One day, the five little eggs started to crack. Tap, tap, tap! Five pretty, yellow baby ducklings came out.

Then the big egg started to crack. Bang, bang, bang! One big, ugly duckling came out. ‘That’s strange,’ thought Mummy Duck.

 Nobody wanted to play with him. ‘Go away,’ said his brothers and sisters. ‘You’re ugly!’

 The ugly duckling was sad. So he went to find some new friends.

 ‘Go away!’ said the pig.‘Go away!’ said the sheep. ‘Go away!’ said the cow. ‘Go away!’ said the horse.

 No one wanted to be his friend. It started to get cold. It started to snow! The ugly duckling found an empty barn and lived there. He was cold, sad and alone.

Then spring came. The ugly duckling left the barn and went back to the pond. He was very thirsty and put his beak into the water. He saw a beautiful, white bird! ‘Wow!’ he said. ‘Who’s that?’ ‘It’s you,’ said another beautiful, white bird. ‘Me? But I’m an ugly duckling.’ ‘Not any more. You’re a beautiful swan, like me. Do you want to be my friend?’ ‘Yes,’ he smiled. All the other animals watched as the two swans flew away, friends forever.

P.S I change the story cause i thing the first one to vulgar