The Character Endidu In The Epic Of Gilgamesh

Fig. 23. Supposedly of the character Endidu, a cylinder seal of a goatman

in the Epic, Gilgamesh, around 3500 B.C. found in the Near East.

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vidence of early goatmen becomes widespread in the ancient Middle East and perhaps the oldest written narrative on the planet emerges out of Sumerian within Mesopotamia; known as ’Gilgamesh.’ Essentially, the story tells of the adventures of a king somewhere between 2750 and 2500 B.C., written on twelve stone tablets in cuneiform script. Included in the epic, endures a creature named Endidu that exists as a horned man/beast. Cylinder seals, on clay found in the area, perpetually show the appearance of a similar creature; which historians, for whatever the reason, named the findings of the cylinder seals after the creature in the epic.

Principally, this chapter focuses on a host of goat creatures reported in archeological findings and in written history. For outside of Egyptian and Biblical accountings, there are numerous other ancient texts concerning visible goatmen creatures in the region that are believed to date from the earliest time of humanity. Specifically, one of the main areas is the ‘Fertile Crescent’ in the Near East, where the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates Rivers joined; a land that had a warm climate that permitted agriculture to thrive approximately about 10,000

years ago. As previously mentioned, the people known as the Semitics lived there.

(The term Semitic tribe or Semites, includes numerous groups of nomads and camel pastoralists, who spoke related Semitic languages and includes; Arabs, Jews, Aramaeans, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Abyssinians, and Phoenicians. Predominantly, they roamed Arabia and Mesopotamia somewhere in the third to the fourth millennium B.C., and dominated the Babylonian civilization beginning about 6000 B.C. This region largely covers modern-day Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and southwestern Iran. )

Babylon’s Goat God

The religious history of the Babylonians occurs much older than the Egyptians; substantially, scholars believe the beginning of the Egyptian Pharaohs came from Babylon and from this emerged a diversity of beliefs, influencing a vast portion of Asia.

Within Babylon and the surrounding area, stories emerge about a goat god that incarnated again and again in similar appearances. Furthermore, the race known as the Hittites existed on one of the sides of its ancestors and became known as “the goat the witches and wizards danced with;” named Aja-eda-pad. In addition, their ruler became recognized as the gray he-goat who persisted on the mountain as

Luzbel.

The temple of the Holy Mount, had its sides facing the four points of the compass, and supposedly encompassed as the temple of the north called Du-azagga, the temple of the goat god. Moreover, in Akkadian, the horned-goat occurred sacred to the god Mul-lil, lord of the dust (HI); the supreme goat became known as Azuga-Siiga, and identified as the primitive parent. Noticeably, the combined acknowledgement of these creatures appears to be significant.