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The two friends walk all the way to what is now modern-day Lebanon and kill the monster Humbaba, who guards the cedars.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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The two friends walk all the way to what is now modern-day Lebanon and kill the monster Humbaba, who guards the cedars.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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He does not know that when they set out together to kill the giant Humbaba and cut down the sacred cedar, this sacrilege will turn the gods against them, leave one dead and one doomed, aware of his position as a mortal being on that mesocosmic human scale of time between the cycles of stars and the moments of beasts -- the Modern Era in which we live and die.
Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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He does not know that when they set out together to kill the giant Humbaba and cut down the sacred cedar, this sacrilege will turn the gods against them, leave one dead and one doomed, aware of his position as a mortal being on that mesocosmic human scale of time between the cycles of stars and the moments of beasts -- the Modern Era in which we live and die.
The Eternal Moment of Modernity Hal Duncan 2007
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When he had originally set out on his quest, Gilgamesh believed that Humbaba represented the totality of evil in the world.
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For this crime of slaying Humbaba, Gilgamesh paid the greatest fee imaginable — the death of Enkidu, his best friend and confidante who, in the realm of literature, symbolically represented his other half.
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Realizing that his god would be upset, Gilgamesh and Enkidu chopped down dozens of trees to craft an ornate door for their god's temple -- essentially, they did exactly what Humbaba was there to prevent.
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The Western Red Cedar isn't actually a cedar but that don't matter; what matters is that Gilgamesh and Enkidu slay the giant Humbaba in the Cedar Forest of Lebanon and chop down the biggest tree to take home.
Notes From The Geek Show Hal Duncan 2006
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There's a scene in the world's oldest story, the Epic of Gilgamesh, where the king and his best friend Enkidu travel to the Cedar Forest to slay the evil demon, Humbaba.
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While Humbaba was certainly a demonic force, his prowess was not without cause.
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