Humbaba, the ogre-guardian of the Cedar Forest, insults and threatens them.

In a last effort, Humbaba tries to escape but is decapitated by Enkidu, or in some versions by both heroes together ; his head is put in a leather sack, which is brought to Enlil, the god who set Huwawa as the forest ’ s guardian.

An Early Dynastic II king ( Ensi ) of Uruk in Sumer, Gilgamesh ( c. 2, 600 BCE ), was commended for military exploits against Humbaba guardian of the Cedar Mountain, and was later celebrated in many later poems and songs in which he was claimed to be two-thirds god and only one-third human.

Gilgamesh proposes a journey to the Cedar Forest to slay the monstrous demi-god Humbaba, in order to gain fame and renown.

# 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 Aga ( Gilgamesh vs. Aga of Kish, has no corresponding episode in the epic, but the themes of whether to show mercy to captives, and counsel from the city elders, also occur in the standard version of the Humbaba story ).

While seeking origins others have suggested examination of some similarities to the Babylonian creature, Humbaba, in the Gilgamesh epic.

Huwawa is first mentioned in Tablet II of the Epic of Gilgamesh: after Gilgamesh and Enkidu become friends following their initial fight, they set out on an adventure to the Cedar Forest beyond the seventh mountain range, to slay Huwawa ( Humbaba ): “ Enkidu ,” Gilgamesh vows, “ since a man cannot pass beyond the final end of life, I want to set off into the mountains, to establish my renown there .” Gilgamesh tricks the monster into giving away his seven “ radiances ” by offering his sisters as wife and concubine.

Defeated, Humbaba appeals to a receptive Gilgamesh for mercy, but Enkidu convinces Gilgamesh to slay Huwawa.

As each gift was given by Gilgamesh, he received from Humbaba a “ terror ” (= “ radiance ”) in exchange, from Huwawa.

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 …”

Also found in Nineveh, The Epic of Gilgamesh is a compelling account of the hero and his friend Enkidu seeking out to destroy the demon Humbaba.

; Humbaba: A giant in the Assyrian epic Gilgamesh that guards mountain cedars, he is scaly, with vulture claws, lion paws, bull's horns and a tail and penis with snakes ' heads at the ends.

Also in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ninsun is summoned by Gilgamesh and Enkidu to help pray to the god Utu to help the two on their journey to the Country of the Living to battle Humbaba.

Henceforth, Gilgamesh and Enkidu become the best of friends and undergo many adventures ( starting with the Cedar Forest and the encounter with Humbaba.

The version found at Qumran also describes the hero Gilgamesh and the monster Humbaba as two of the giants accompanying Ogias.

In another part of the Gilgamesh epic, Gilgamesh offers his " sister " Enmebaragesi to be the wife of the monster Huwawa or Humbaba, causing some debate as to Enmebaragesi's gender, with most scholars taking this reference as a jest.

They build a raft and return home along the Euphrates with the giant tree and the head of Humbaba.

The iconography of the apotropaic severed head of Humbaba, with staring eyes, flowing beard and wild hair, is well documented from the First Babylonian Dynasty, continuing into Neo-Assyrian art and dying away during the Achaemenid rule.

Humbaba is mentioned in Salman Rushdie's Luka and the Fire of Life, with the added details that the god has a serpent tail and a " serpent willy ":

The Humbaba of Assyria was a naked, scaly giant with a horned head and lion's paws.

Together, they journey to the Cedar Mountain to defeat Humbaba, its monstrous guardian.

Despite similarities between his dream figures and earlier descriptions of Humbaba, Enkidu interprets these dreams as good omens, and denies that the frightening images represent the forest guardian.

As they approach the cedar mountain, they hear Humbaba bellowing, and have to encourage each other not to be afraid.

The god Shamash sends 13 winds to bind Humbaba, and he is captured.

In Enkidu's dream, the gods decide that one of the heroes must die because they killed Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven.

In Akkadian mythology Humbaba ( Assyrian spelling ) or Huwawa ( Sumerian spelling ), also Humbaba the Terrible was a monstrous giant of immemorial age raised by Utu, the Sun.

Humbaba was the guardian of the Cedar Forest, where the gods lived, by the will of the god Enlil, who “ assigned as a terror to human beings .” He is the brother of Pazuzu and Enki and son of Hanbi.

“ He gave Humbaba ’ s first aura to the fields.

The decapitated head of the monstrous Humbaba found a Greek parallel in the myth of Perseus and the similarly employed head of Medusa, which Perseus placed in his leather sack.

Judith McKenzie detected Humbaba heads in a Nabatean tomb frieze at Petra.

Jerome's Prologue to Jeremiah says he excluded them: " And the Book of Baruch, his scribe, which is neither read nor found among the Hebrews, we have omitted, standing ready, because of these things, for all the curses from the jealous, to whom it is necessary for me to respond through a separate short work.

Then Israel called all of his sons in and prophesied their blessings or curses to all twelve of them in order of their ages.

As the islanders surround the burning wicker man and sing the Middle English folk-song " Sumer Is Icumen In ", a terrified Howie curses them and recites Psalm 23 as he prays to God for accession to Heaven.

He devises some " curses " for them in the pages of the book, using occult symbols and Greek letters, and placing the book where they will find it.

Hearing this, Oedipus curses both of his sons for not treating him well, contrasting them with his devoted daughters.

Then Israel called all of his sons in and prophesied their blessings or curses to all twelve of them in order of their ages.

Most of them were written in Latin, although one discovered was in Brythonic and usually laid curses upon those whom the writer felt had done them wrong.

In an analysis of the treatment of Romani people in literature and media, Nikolina Dobreva asserts that the show deserves to be criticized for associating Gypsies with curses, primitivism, and for stereotyping Gypsies as " irrevocably foreign " in clothing, speech, and for perpetuating the persistent air of mystery surrounding them.

Thuy curses them all and storms out (" What's This I Find ").

The Seven Ravens are transformed when their father thinks his sons are playing instead of fetching water to christen their newborn and sickly sister, and curses them.

Book I contains conjurations, invocations and curses to summon and constrain spirits of the dead and demons in order to force them to do the operator's will.

Through the plane window, Otto ( who has survived due to being pushed into wet concrete by the steamroller ) curses them until, as the plane takes off, he finally drops off.

Machsom Watch has been accused by the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ), some non-governmental organizations, individual soldiers, and soldiers ' mothers of disrupting the operation of checkpoints, showing hostility, and shouting derogatory comments and curses toward the troops, as well as making false accusations against them.

But this is not to be done in anger, nor indiscriminately ; rather, it is only to be " invoked on such as, on deliberate and candid thought, are found condemned to them by the Law of God ; and then the curse should be invoked as in the presence of God, the searcher of hearts ; conscious that whosoever curses in the bitterness of his ... corrupt heart, and not in the light of God ’ s truth, the curse will return upon him.

A form of promise ( not an oath, which is unlawful ) is prescribed for the reader, by heaven, earth, water, and air, that he will take extraordinary care of the writings and communicate them to no one ; he invokes upon himself terrible curses in case he should be unfaithful to this covenant.

As the remaining men ride away, Murphy hurls threats and curses after them, but is stunned when Billy turns back, beyond gunshot range of most normal men.

: Together with them we send our curses to the evil-doers,

But that night Busla, Bósi's foster-mother, called on her magic, appeared suddenly in King Hring's bedchamber, and threatened and harassed the king with charms and curses, until the helpless king agreed to make peace with Herraud and Bósi to the extent of sending them on a dangerous quest instead of executing them.

He assigned cruel Muslim men to spy upon Jewish women, in order to oppress them with all kinds of curses, humiliation, and spite.

Even in purest ignorance of such a bond, if the potentially offended party does not forgive the offender ’ s transgression, there would still be the gravest threat of those curses still being visited upon them, for ignorance does not excuse the interference.

First the speaker curses the plants on the farm with bareness and then asks the forests to burn before Lycurgus destroys them with his axe.

The gunsmiths hand Platov the same flea he gave them and he curses them, believing that they have done absolutely nothing.