Gilgamesh: The King Who Defied the Gods and Tried to Cheat Death | Ancient History Sleep Story

Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, is two-thirds god and a hard, cruel ruler, until the gods make the wild man Enkidu to match him and the two become best friends. Together they kill Humbaba, the monster who guards the cedar forest, and the Bull of Heaven that the goddess Ishtar sends against Uruk, and the gods decide that Enkidu must die for it. Afraid of dying himself, Gilgamesh walks through the mountain of the sun and crosses the Waters of Death to find Utnapishtim, the man who lived through the great flood, and asks him how he escaped death. He fails Utnapishtim's test, loses the plant of youth to a snake, and comes home to the walls of Uruk. Based on the Epic of Gilgamesh: the Standard Babylonian tablets I to XI, with the Old Babylonian Pennsylvania, Yale and Sippar tablets, and the Atrahasis epic for Utnapishtim's story of the flood. This is an ancient Mesopotamian epic, told as a sleep story. 0:00 A match for the king 2:14 Shamhat at the water hole 5:18 Two dreams 6:37 Bread and beer 7:43 The doorway 9:17 Gilgamesh's plan 12:30 The road 14:19 Humbaba's forest 17:39 Ishtar's offer 18:56 The Bull of Heaven 21:53 The council of the gods 24:50 The house of dust 26:07 Gilgamesh's grief 27:39 Through the mountain 30:37 The tavern by the sea 33:17 The waters of death 34:59 The far shore 37:04 Before there were people 39:13 Too much noise 41:11 The reed wall 44:18 The flood 49:01 The test 50:48 The plant 53:50 The walls of Uruk #Gilgamesh #EpicOfGilgamesh #AncientHistory #SleepStory