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Enkidu

American  
[en-kee-doo] / ˈɛn ki du /

noun

  1. the servant and friend of Gilgamesh.


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When Enkidu dies—and we know, from the moment of his creation from clay, that he must—the epic contracts around the fact of mortality with an almost unbearable pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

The parallel to that is the relationship between Gilgamesh and his best friend Enkidu.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2023

Still, much as I longed to revisit the exploits of the first superheroes, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, it would be, as Mr. Spock used to say, “illogical.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2021

Enkidu is punished by the gods for their arrogance and he dies.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Ben goes on to read of the tragic end of Enkidu and Gilgamesh’s pain of losing his best friend.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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