enlil was overthrown by gilgamesh and his companion in the cedar forest.
enlil was overthrown by gilgamesh and his companion in the cedar forest.
who was overthrown by gilgamesh and his companion in the cedar forest?
enlil
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the cedar forest is the glorious realm of the gods of mesopotamian mythology. it is guarded by the demigod humbaba and was once entered by the hero gilgamesh who dared cut down trees from its virgin stands during his quest for fame. the cedar forest is described in tablets 4-6 of the great epic of gilgamesh.









































earlier sumerian versions of the epic of gilgamesh say that gilgamesh travelled east, presumably, to the zagros mountains of iran (ancient elam) to the cedar forest, yet the later more extensive babylonian examples place the cedar forests west in lebanon.
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section::::in the "epic of gilgamesh".









































section::::in the "epic of gilgamesh".:tablet 4.









































tablet four tells the story of the 









































journey to the cedar forest. on each day of the six-day journey, gilgamesh prays to shamash; in response to these prayers, shamash sends gilgamesh oracular dreams during the night. the first is not preserved. in the second, gilgamesh dreams that he wrestles a great bull that splits the ground with his breath. enkidu interprets the dream for gilgamesh: the dream means that shamash, the bull, will protect gilgamesh. in the third, gilgamesh dreams:
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