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P a g e | 22 Tablet VI Tablet VI: The Hero Returns - The Bull of Heaven Summary: Gilgamesh rejects the advances of the goddess Inanna [Ishtar], who has her father send down a bull to destroy the royal city. Enkidu takes the lead in killing the bull. Characters: Gilgamesh, the goddess Inanna, Anu (father of Inanna), the Bull of Heaven 10 20 30 Column I Gilgamesh returned to the holy ground of Uruk, divine Inanna‟s city. Gilgamesh returned covered in Humbaba‟s gore. Gilgamesh washed the blood from his hair. Gilgamesh washed the gore from his body. Gilgamesh was clothed in the finest robes, the finest sash, the finest shoes, the finest cloak. Gilgamesh was returned his weapons, cleaned and polished. Gilgamesh placed his torcs upon his arms. Gilgamesh placed his crown on his head. Gilgamesh placed his ruling mace in his right hand. Gilgamesh did sit on his throne. Divine Inanna saw him and was overwhelmed with lust. “Be my lover. Love me as a husband does a wife. Give me your seed, give me your semen. Plant your seed in my womb. Abundance will follow, produce without name. Your riches will pile up higher than the sky. A chariot of lapis lazuli, brass, ivory and golden wheels shall you have. On it pulled by horses created from thunderheads shall you arrive At our home, with cedar post, with cedar floor, with cedar wall in every room. Each power in the land will bow down before you And offer their new born triplets to you alone. Have sex with me and all this shall become yours.” Gilgamesh to these words did reply: “What may I offer in return, Queen of Love? You have everything. You want for all I state merely my cock? Why [do I not] give you the food and drinks of the gods? I have nothing for she who has all. What happens when your desire burns out? What happens when you leave? Shall I love the cold air left? Shall I have after only your memory, a tar that won‟t wash away? Where are your lovers past and your husbands too? Dumuzi the shepherd, slain for your gain, forced to live underground
P a g e | 23 Tablet VI 40 50 60 While you play above. And then there was that courtier who fluttered into your snare. Do you hear his cries ever since? “My wing is broken; broken is my wing”. A mighty lion did you fuck, and when his seed was in your sack You led him to a hunter‟s pit seven times seven deep, and left him to rot. You broke a wild horse and in his mouth placed harsh bit [?] let him take you hindermost, And then hobbled him So he can drink the water of a stream his hoofs muddied all the while. You took each sacrificed kid, ate the proffered cakes and drank from a goatherder sweet And in return into wolf did you him turn, which dogs did follow and bite. With no further thought of that ex-lover you quickly turned to Your father‟s gardener Ishullanu, whom you did tease [with?] sweet figs and dates for you. “Ishullanu, come touch me here between my legs, Put your fingers deep within my sacred sack, I have no clothes on to halt your way.” And to you did Ishullanu say, “Why, Inanna, should I eat your rotten meal, When a tasty healthy meal could be mine?” Why should I sin and be accursed to lie Cold, hungry and afright in wild marsh land?” Now some say that you, Inanna so kind, turned [him] into a frog who does croak: “I know not, I know not at all.” And some say that you turned his penis into a mole Stuck in a tunnel in the ground which He can pull not out nor push further in. So Inanna, so sweet and kind, Which of these fates do you wish me find? 70 80 Column II With these words from Gilgamesh in her ears Inanna did roar and shout, and Straight to heaven did she fly, Straight to her father Anu, and her mother Anunna too. “The king of Uruk has insulted me. He mocks my loves, and told of them to everyone.” Anu looks down on his daughter and does ask: “Why do you rage? Did you not lust for Gilgamesh To thrust his semen into your sack? Did you not him approach like a man? Why complain what you did start?
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