It seems that
the greatest evil is that which is inside Gilgamesh himself.
Humbaba is
called the "Hugeness," and our characters' descriptions call him "evil," but
Humbaba's actions to not really support this. I guess he is evil in the way something like Circe
in the Odyssey or the dragon in are evil: as a
holdfast. That is, their very presence stifles a community by not allowing them to grow or
challenging their dominant ideologies. Identity is important in an age of expansion. Perhaps
this challenge to (national) identity is the...
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