... good example of this. Almost everything they did glorified the gods, or described some situation that was brought on by the gods, such as peace. The Bull Headed lyre depicts this trend by showing a bulls head, a typical diety of fertility carved into a lyre. The lyre was used in ceremonies and was ... divine ruling, Hammurabi's Code is engraved under the actual picture. Another example of divine authority is Sargon's Guardians. Each depicts Sargon's head on a flying bull's body. Each was massive, requiring many men to literally drag it into place. They were so huge, there are other monu...

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... had loved suffered some kind of unfortunate or ignoble fate, which Gilgamesh refuses to suffer. Ishtar retreats to heaven and lodges her complaint with Anu, who agrees to send the bull of heaven against Gilgamesh for his effrontery. As a side note, this episode has some parallels in the Iliad. Diomedes injures Aphrodite, who is analogous to Ishtar; both wounded love-goddesses ... outwardly similar, are used differently by each epic, because they occur at different stages of heroic development. In Gilgamesh, after the heroes attack and kill the second mythical opponent, the bull of heave...

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