Gilgamesh

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Across
  1. 2. The veiled tavern keeper who Gilgamesh meets after going through the tunnel
  2. 4. The goddess of love and fertility, as well as the goddess of war.
  3. 5. The fearsome demon who guards the Cedar Forest forbidden to mortals.
  4. 7. A god lives in Apsu, the primal waters below the Earth.
  5. 8. The mother of Gilgamesh
  6. 9. The protector of Gilgamesh, his guardian god
  7. 11. Setting (place) of the novel
  8. 12. The temple prostitute who tames Enkidu
  9. 15. Companion and friend of Gilgamesh.
  10. 16. The god who brought down the flood to destroy all mankind
Down
  1. 1. The guardian of the mysterious “stone things.”
  2. 3. King of Uruk
  3. 6. A goddess of creation who fashioned Enkidu from clay and her spit.
  4. 10. The man who survived the great flood that almost destroyed all life on Earth by building a great boat
  5. 13. The husband of Ishtar.
  6. 14. The name of the 180 pound axe Gilgamesh carried. “Might of ___”