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** Canonically (if my knowledge of Mesopotamian mythology is up to par), Gilgamesh was not born in the normal sense, but rather created by the gods. Three gods created different aspects of him (body, intellect, and something else I think). Two of them were divine in nature, but one (most likely his body or his lifespan) remained human.
** As Gilgamesh was essentially the Babylonian equivalent of Chuck Norris, the answer is that he's such a [[Badass]] that he actually re-fertilized his own embryo.
*** [[That Guy With
** Don't forget that the story is basically a [[Shonen]] anime in written form. I'm surprised they haven't ''made'' an anime from it!
*** They [[Fate/stay
*** Don't forget [[Gilgamesh]], which picks up the story in modern times.
** Maybe his mother slept with two gods that day, and he got genes (or whatever the closest equivalent the Babylonians believed in back then) from all three.
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** Gil's mother was a hermaphrodite.
** His mother was a goddess, and his father became a god gradually over the course of his life. So his father was about 1/3 divine when Gilgamesh was conceived.
*** But it was the norm that the kings were all considered to be like that. If my understanding of how these things worked is correct then it is much like with the ancient Pharaohs and it was something like the same fallacies behind the 3/5ths compromise. They were trying to have it both ways and not giving any thought to reason because...well, because [[Viewers
** No, no, no. C'mon guys, this one is easy. Gilgamesh's divine parent(s) reached down into his human parent(s), snipped out two-thirds of his human DNA, and replaced it with divine DNA. Nobody said Gilgamesh had to be built entirely the old-fashioned way.
** Okay, this is hitting WAY off the mark...but the Troper before has a point. Y'see, Gilgamesh's father (King = God) made love to his wife that night. During that "session", a god wandered by seeing this, and rather than watch, get in on the "fun". Although the god was visible, they didn't seem to care, saw it as "Divine Intervention". During the "fun", God A's sperm devolved to combine with God B's sperm, causing one great "super-sperm" to impregnate her egg. Thus, Gilgamesh was born. Okay? Okay.
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** Utanapishtim was closer, probably.
* How is it possible that nobody yet thought to make the most awesome video game ever about this story? I mean... This is just [[God of War (
** Oh [http://rpgmaker.net/games/3453/ You maen like this one?]
** Because it would probably suck, and definitely have [[God of War (
** Video game would be difficult. But a movie would be awesome.
** Yeah, an actual fairly straight Shonen anime adaptation (not an update like [[Gilgamesh]]) would be pretty great.
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