Understanding Enkidu

Stormy-hearted: “Aruru listened and heard and then created out of earth clay and divine spittle the double, the stormy-hearted other.” (p.5)

Hairy: “Enkidu, the hairy-bodied wild man of the grasslands.” (p.5)

Powerful: “Powerful as Ninurta the god of war, the hair of his head like the grain fields of the goddess, naked as Sumuqan the god of cattle.” (p.5)

Wild: “Present yourself to Gilgamesh the king… tell him about the power of the wild man.” (p.6)

Lonely: “Then Enkidu, who’s heart was beginning to know about himself and longed for a companion” (p.9)