#shamhat

[anniflamma]

your epic of gilgamesh art is so beautiful dawg I hope you end up loving mesopotamian mythology more and drawing more of the sillies [shy]

Thank youuu! >:D Well I do love Enkidu and Shamhat already sooooo.... here is a little doodle~~

[spineless-lobster]

“I want a story where sex is integral to the plot and not just for the camera” HALT! Look no further than the hit 13th to 10th century BCE clay tablet poem The Epic of Gilgamesh where enkidu has sex for about one to two weeks straight and if that never happened then there would be absolutely no story at all

[chelathy]

I had the idea last year to do like block pattern Diptych thing for each 'half' of Epic of Gilgamesh but I never finished it, i still love the panels i started though even if they are out of order lol!

It would've also included Ninsun, Utnapishtim and his wife, Siduri and the hunter who found Enkidu at the beginning!

[beardedmrbean]

[in-tua-deep]

fucking love shamhat from the epic of gilgamesh. true icon, honestly

like some hunter dude goes into the city and is like

hunter: hello king gilgamesh. I have a problem. there’s this super hot and muscular feral man in the woods and he is Getting In The Way of my whole hunting gig since he is protecting the deer and spooking me

gilgamesh: huh! neat! you should ask this super hot priestess shamhat to help I bet she could pspsps him out of the woods ;)

hunter: …

gilgamesh: with sex, I mean

hunter: no, uh, that was clear. thanks.

and clearly shamhat was like “sure, why not. road trip (:”

please know that I am picturing “brought him down” like she fuckin. grabbed Enkidu by the antlers and wrestled him to the ground btw. shamhat has the body of a WWE wrestler to ME

anyway so she and Enkidu have marathon sex for “six days and seven nights”

and after this marathon sex she’s just like. hmm. what if I, shamhat, was the ultimate wingman ✨

shamhat: hey you’re super hot and muscular. so I know this other super strong guy -

enkidu: for me to punch ? (:

shamhat: … not quite! though if you wanted to wrestle him I think he’d be into it

enkidu: ?????

shamhat: aww. you will learn. please let me take you to the city and introduce you to a hot guy who you are the dream guy of (literally) ;)

and this is why when enkidu is having his breakdown about impending death and cursing everyone involved in taking him from the woods, even shamash the sun god was like “woah bro, why would you curse shamhat??? she literally wingmanned for you and introduced you to gilgamesh ???

and enkidu was like. shit. you’re right. actually shamhat deserves all the nice things. bless her. @ shamhat I hope everyone forever thinks you’re so hot they’re throwing themselves at you or at least throwing gold and jewelry at you 💕

shamhat deserves the wingman award of all time for setting up the worlds oldest queer couple tbh

[cojag]

Shamhat and Enkidu havin' a cozy sit down❤️ :-)

[visions-of-our-past]

Shamhat seducing Enkidu by Līga Kļaviņa.

[cebra-gris]

Enkidu and civilizing intercourse

Remember how I said recently that I would do more to comment on the reconstructed music of Babylon? Well, I had it pending, and a mention from @nerdfuckerrr made me think that he knows what the matter is about…

Stay and read, we have exceptional men with monstrously large members and an even more curious thing about how these people conceive the engine of civilization…

Let's go in parts, from Mesopotamia we are left on clay tablets with a primordial mythology that sometimes seems even more strange and visceral than the Hellenic one. Part of it is captured in the so-called Poem of Gilgamesh, which ruled over Ur, which is said to be the first capital of humanity about two thousand years before Christ. Among his notable adventures is the search for immortality, although that is not the topic today but rather the friend who when he died made him want to achieve it: Enkidu.

Gilgamesh shared everything with Enkidu and sometimes they had loud fights (a thing that very men used to do). Precisely one of them, in which buildings were damaged as if it were a Marvel superhero fight, was for not being invited to what we deduce was an orgy that Gilgamesh organized as ruler for religious reasons. And Enkidu really liked the fornicus, who was a virile, primal and wild man, literally speaking, who grew up outside the city surrounded by animals.

In the oldest version that we know of the poem in Akkadian, which is completed with Assyrian text, Enkidu was not exactly the noble savage of Rosseau, and was a nuisance to the shepherds of the area, because apart from eating some animal, he bothered the animals in another, more sensual way. This gave the shepherds an idea of how to appease him, and they sought out a sacred prostitute to teach him the benefits of city life (and that is exactly what we call 'civilizing').

As we are told, Enkidu welcomed the novelty and took the woman in the style of animals, but Shamhat was a patient and resourceful woman, and she taught him more refined postures and practices that filled Enkidu with joy and made him interested in more traditions of life in the city, learning to communicate well with men and a little education. The recovered and reconstructed song below speaks of their brief period as lovers being civilized by it.

Did you find this myth interesting? Well, it turns out that it is not such a strange idea. Observing the customs of the pygmy chimpanzee (pan paniscus) it has been proven that their social order and conflict resolution is based on sexual exchanges (and this does not only happen between males and females), it is not unreasonable to assume that when we lost limiting ourselves to the mating season, we became accustomed to living in society in large groups to be able to have sexual gratification all the time. The origin of civilization could come from that as much or more than from the need to organize ourselves for sedentary cultivation. Perhaps it is a coincidence or the ancestors of the Akkadians who created the first version of the myth knew something about this. Who knows?