gilgamesh questions

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December 20, 2014

 

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This lecture provides you the idea of the two protagonists being a couple. Later on in the story they tell how Gilgamesh rejects Ishtar, (goodness of love whose attracted to him), when she proposed marriage. These lectures lead me to my first question: If Babylonians accepted homosexuals why in the text is the punishment of the bull of heaven focused on to his lover? And being Ishtar the goddess of love why is represented as the one that does not excuse the fact of his relation?, is because she is a woman? Perhaps Babylonians had discrepancies in that point? My concern about the religious aspect begins with the story of the flood...
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These lectures lead me to my first question: If Babylonians accepted homosexuals why in the text is the punishment of the bull of heaven focused on to his lover? And being Ishtar the goddess of love why is represented as the one that does not excuse the fact of his relation?, is because she is a woman? Perhaps Babylonians had discrepancies in that point? My concern about the religious aspect begins with the story of the flood...
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