Enkidu

Japanese: Enkidu
Enkidu

… Gilgamesh was the lord of Uruk and was two-thirds god and one-third human. At first he was a tyrant, so the people of Uruk complained to the heavenly god Anu, who ordered Enkidu, a wild man, to be created from clay. Enkidu, who lived among the animals in the fields, was brought to Uruk by a prostitute who served the Uruk temple, where he competed against Gilgamesh in a contest of strength. …

From [Human-faced beast statue]

…In Mesopotamia, monsters were created to embody superhuman beings, and from the end of the early dynasty of the Sumerian state in the second half of the 3rd millennium BC, images combining a human face and a bull were carved into cylinder seals and other objects. This is interpreted as the monster Enkidu who appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh. From then on, this kind of being (a bull-shaped monster) was passed down through Akkad, and then into the art of Assyria and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Enkidu" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… ギルガメシュはウルクの城主で,3分の2が神,3分の1が人間であった。はじめ暴君だったのでウルクの人びとは天神アヌにこのことを訴え,アヌの命令で粘土から野人エンキドゥEnkiduが創り出される。動物たちに交じって野原にいたエンキドゥはウルク神殿に仕える遊び女によってウルクへ連れてこられ,ここでギルガメシュと力比べをした。…

【人面獣身像】より

…メソポタミアでは超人間的な存在を具現化するために怪獣が創出され,前3千年紀後半のシュメール人の国家,初期王朝末期ごろから,人面と牡牛を組み合わせた像が円筒印章などに刻出された。これは《ギルガメシュ叙事詩》にあらわれる怪人エンキドゥEnkiduと解されている。以後,このような存在(牡牛形怪人)はアッカドを経て,アッシリア,アケメネス朝ペルシアの美術に継承された。…

※「Enkidu」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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