According to one account of this figure's death, when he begged his killers for his life, one of them replied that to let thus figure live would be as absurd as giving a wig to a captured priest. This figure claimed that he was raised in the mountains by the sun god Utu and did not know his mother or father, while in another account he claims to be the son of a mountain and a cave. This figure had
According to one account of this figure's death, when he begged his killers for his life, one of them replied that to let thus figure live would be as absurd as giving a wig to a captured priest. This figure claimed that he was raised in the mountains by the sun god Utu and did not know his mother or father, while in another account he claims to be the son of a mountain and a cave. This figure had seven auras, which were re-distributed after his death, and he once rejected a bribe of little shoes, big shoes, and the concubine Matur, responding to each offer with one of his seven terrors. An expedition of fifty men without wives or children were sent to fight this figure, and they were aided by the twelve winds of Shamash, the patron god of this figure's killer. For ten points, name this being appointed by Enlil to protect the Cedar forests, the first monster killed by Gilgamesh.
According to one account of this figure's death, when he begged his killers for his life, one of them replied that to let thus figure live would be as absurd as giving a wig to a captured priest.
{Humbaba} the Terrible [accept: {Huwawa}]