In the myth of Inanna's descent, Inanna, in order to console her grieving sister Ereshkigal, who is mourning the death of her husband Gugalana ( gu, bull, gal, big, ana, sky / heaven ), slain by Gilgamesh and Enkidu, sets out to visit her sister.

* In the Epic of Gilgamesh, priestess Shamhat, a temple prostitute, tamed wild Enkidu after " six days and seven nights.

Anu gives Ishtar the Bull of Heaven, and Ishtar sends it to attack Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu.

While Gilgamesh and Enkidu are resting, Ishtar stands upon the walls of the city ( which is Uruk ) and curses Gilgamesh.

Perhaps the most significant legend to survive from Mesopotamian religion is the Epic of Gilgamesh, which tells the story of the heroic king Gilgamesh and his wild friend Enkidu, and the former's search for immortality which is entwined with all the gods and their approval.

The story centers on a friendship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu.

Tablet 12 is a near copy of an earlier Sumerian tale, a prequel, in which Gilgamesh sends Enkidu to retrieve some objects of his from the Underworld, and he returns in the form of a spirit to relate the nature of the Underworld to Gilgamesh.

The trapper tells Gilgamesh of the man, and it is arranged for Enkidu to be seduced by a harlot.

When Gilgamesh attempts to visit the wedding chamber, Enkidu blocks his way, and they fight.

Despite warnings from Enkidu, and the council of elders, Gilgamesh will not be deterred.

Ninsun adopts Enkidu as her son, and Gilgamesh leaves instructions for the governance of Uruk in his absence.

Gilgamesh and Enkidu journey to Lebanon Cedar Forest.

He accuses Enkidu of betrayal, and vows to disembowel Gilgamesh and feed his flesh to the birds.

Gilgamesh is afraid, but with some encouraging words from Enkidu the battle commences.

Enkidu, however, is enraged and asks Gilgamesh to kill the beast.

Without any divine assistance, Enkidu and Gilgamesh attack and slay it, and offer up its heart to Shamash.

Shamash reminds Enkidu of how Shamhat fed and clothed him, and introduced him to Gilgamesh.

Gilgamesh delivers a lamentation for Enkidu, in which he calls upon mountains, forests, fields, rivers, wild animals, and all of Uruk to mourn for his friend.

Tablet nine opens with Gilgamesh roaming the wild clothed in animal skins, grieving for Enkidu.

This tablet is mainly an Akkadian translation of an earlier Sumerian poem, Gilgamesh and the Netherworld ( also known as " Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld " and variants ), although it has been suggested that it is derived from an unknown version of that story.

Later they kill the Bull of Heaven, which the goddess Ishtar sends to punish Gilgamesh for spurning her advances.

# The tablet is broken here, but it seems that Gilgamesh has suggested going to the Pine Forest to cut down trees and kill Humbaba ( known here as Huwawa ).

# Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven ( corresponds to the Bull of Heaven episode ( tablet 6 ) in the Akkadian version.

** Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven

The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh depicts the killing by Gilgamesh and Enkidu of the Bull of Heaven, Gugalana, first husband of Ereshkigal, as an act of defiance of the gods.

In Akkadian versions of the epic, Gilgamesh also refers to Lugalbanda as his personal god, and in one episode presents the oil filled horns of the defeated Bull of Heaven " for the anointing of his god Lugalbanda ".

He renamed himself Gilgamesh, donning a costume that resembled the hide of the Bull of Heaven and went to work as a monster-slayer.

Among the findings were the Enuma Elish, also known as the Epic of Creation, which depicts a traditional Babylonian view of creation, the Epic of Gilgamesh, a large selection of " omen texts " including Enuma Anu Enlil which " contained omens dealing with the moon, its visibility, eclipses, and conjunction with planets and fixed stars, the sun, its corona, spots, and eclipses, the weather, namely lightning, thunder, and clouds, and the planets and their visibility, appearance, and stations ", and astronomic / astrological texts, as well as standard lists used by scribes and scholars such as word lists, bilingual vocabularies, lists of signs and synonyms, and lists of medical diagnoses.

They were proud of this achievement as attested in the Epic of Gilgamesh which opens with a description of Uruk its walls, streets, markets, temples, and gardens.

One of the most famous of these was the Epic of Gilgamesh, which first appears in Akkadian during the Old Babylonian period as a circa 1, 000 line epic known by its incipit, šūtur eli šarrī, ‘‘ Surpassing all other kings ,’’ which incorporated some of the stories from the five earlier Sumerian Gilgamesh tales.

Unfortunately, when Gilgamesh stops to bathe, it is stolen by a serpent, who sheds its skin as it departs.

Alternatively, it has been suggested that " its purpose, though crudely handled, is to explain to Gilgamesh ( and the reader ) the various fates of the dead in the Afterlife " and in " an awkward attempt to bring closure ", it both connects the Gilgamesh of the epic with the Gilgamesh who is the King of the Netherworld, and is " a dramatic capstone whereby the twelve-tablet epic ends on one and the same theme, that of " seeing " (= understanding, discovery, etc.

Very early examples are Epic of Gilgamesh, in its Sumerian version predating 2000 BC, and the Egyptian Book of the Dead written down in the Papyrus of Ani in approximately 1250 BC but probably dates from about the 18th century BC.

While Gilgamesh thus distracts and tricks this spirit of the cedar forest, the fifty unmarried young men he has brought on the adventure are felling cedar timber, stripping it of its branches and laying it “ in many piles on the hillside ,” ready to be taken away.

As his death approaches, and Gilgamesh is oppressed with his own mortality, the gods remind him of his great feats: “… having fetched cedar, the unique tree, from its mountains, having killed Humbaba in the forest …”

Some scholars believe that the Uruk epic of Gilgamesh was written down during this period into its classic Sumerian form.

Evidence taken to contradict Jaynes's proposed date of the transition from bicameralism is the Gilgamesh Epic: although the story of Gilgamesh was recorded centuries before the Old Testament, and though its setting is contemporaneous or earlier than the Old Testament stories, the Gilgamesh story describes such features as introspection.

The series followed a main character named Chirico Cuvie, a special forces Armored Trooper pilot and former member of the Red Shoulder Battalion, an elite force used by the Gilgamesh Confederation in its war against the Balarant Union — both interstellar nations within the distant Astragius Galaxy.

Among its holdings was the famous Epic of Gilgamesh.

Gilgamesh claimed that Dahak needed the sacrifice of a warrior heart in order to enter the world, thus beginning a ritual for Dahak's arrival using his sister Nebula as the sacrifice.

During the battle, Gilgamesh stabbed Iolaus in the chest while he attempted to defend Nebula, fulfilling Dahak's plan of a sacrifice of a warrior heart.

The most charismatic and prominent member of Gilgamesh, Novem ( Nine ) is the kind blond who eventually captures Kiyoko's heart.