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Gilgamesh and Enkidu become friends and triumph over divine challenges through friendship and bravery, including the Bull of Heaven sent after Gilgamesh rejects Ishtar.
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Gilgamesh and Enkidu become friends and triumph over divine challenges through friendship and bravery, including the Bull of Heaven sent after Gilgamesh rejects Ishtar.
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"...they're able to triumph in the end. There's a god named Ishtar and she falls in love with Gilgamesh because he's so heroic."
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"But Gilgamesh rebuffs Ishtar because Gilgamesh basically knows that Ishtar wants to turn him into her sex slave. He doesn't want that. He wants..."
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