#utu

[mangafascination]

[chelathy]

Shamash at the start of tablet 9 moment

[sapocipo]

I love Shamash (Utu), he is so funny. There is a myth where he was teasing Ishtar (Inanna), saying it is time for her to get married, and then he proceded to be Dumuzid best man and totally sell him to his sister. Ishtar was like "I dont want to marry the shepherd!" and he said something like "He makes good butter and good milk, I like the butter he makes" 😭😭

[just-some-art-guy]

Heavenly Twins; Ishtar & Shamash.

[novikjpg]

Mesopotamian gods designs for an animation I’ve been working on lately (for my university, huh).

Goofy stuff.

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen Utu (1983)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onMay 10

[kaibutsushidousha]

Any chances of Utu relationship with Gil being mentioned more in Strange Fake? How do you think TM would write that since Gil whole rejecting the gods things with Utu being his patron god in the Epic?

Gilgamesh's goal was to promote the separation between humans and gods, so Utu can easily still work as Gil's supporter if he's portrayed as a god who is also rooting for humanity to rise above.

The list of things we already have established he did is

Shoot a HUGE arrow at Tiamat (she was the biggest antagonist to the idea of separating people from the gods)

Created Enkidu and Huwawa, but with the express purpose of creating the perfect human model (shows a special interest in the human species)

Helped Gilgamesh and Enkidu defeat Huwawa (takes the success of Gil's goals as a priority over his personal ideas and experiments)

Everything so far clicks pretty consistently to me. Nothing eyebrow-raising in his current "portrayal". His twinie Ishtar also has a similar moment where she's shot down by Sigma and proudly gloats about how her dear mankind outgrew its need for the like Gilgamesh and Enkidu, so that's roughly how I'm mainly imagining him.

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