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** Enkidu's death was punishment for Humbaba's death as well as the Bull of Heaven's death, according to Enkidu's prophetic dream
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\n** The gods planned for him to be 1/1, but it was their first attempt, so they screwed up the measures (divine blood is more potent by volume), but it was too expensive to start over.




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** Some of that "savviness" was part of common knowledge and even divine lithurgy - today most of us know to wash our hands before eating, back then people knew about gods and their tempers and Fate instead.




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** Or, as many men, he exaggerated afterwards, and the only witness, Shamhat, decided to keep silent.

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