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Updated: June 10, 2025
Eabani falls a victim to Ukhat's attractions. Ukhat exposed her breast, revealed her nakedness, took off her clothing. Unabashed she enticed him. The details of the meeting are described with a frank simplicity that points again to the antiquity of the legend. For six days and seven nights Eabani enjoyed the love of Ukhat.
The story of Eabani, Ukhat, and Sadu is independent of Gilgamesh's career, and so also is the story of his wanderings to Mashu and his encounter with Parnapishtim. Gilgamesh is brought into association with Eabani by what may be called, a natural process of assimilation.
Eabani reveals glimpses of the sad conditions that prevail there. It is the domain of the terrible Allatu, and Etana is named among those who dwell in this region. Eabani bewails his fate. He curses Ukhat, whom, together with Sadu, he holds responsible for having brought death upon him.
The introduction of Ukhat, however, as an aid to carry out the designs of Gilgamesh is devoid of religious significance, and one is inclined to regard the Eabani episode, or at least certain portions of it, as having had at one time an existence quite independent of Gilgamesh's adventures. The description of Eabani is, as we have seen, based upon mythological ideas.
The creation of Eabani recalls the Biblical tradition of the formation of the first man, and Ukhat appears to be the Babylonian equivalent to the Biblical Eve, who through her charms entices Eabani away from the gazelles and cattle, and brings him to Uruk, the symbol of civilized existence.
There is an interesting reference to 'a festival' and to festive garments, but whether, as would appear, Ukhat and Eabani are the ones who clothe themselves upon reaching Uruk or whether, as Jeremias believes, a festival was being celebrated at the place it is impossible to say. Eabani is warned in a dream not to undertake a test of strength with Gilgamesh,
With this story there has been combined a popular tradition of man's early savage state, his departure from this condition through the sexual passion aroused by Ukhat, who becomes his 'companion, and with whom or through whom he is led to a beautiful garden as a habitation. The sixth tablet introduces a third element into the epic, a mythological one.
Eabani clings to her, as Adam does to Eve after she 'is brought' to him. Ukhat becomes Eabani's 'companion, just as Eve becomes the 'helpmate' of Adam. These considerations strengthen the supposition that the Eabani-Ukhat episode is quite distinct from the career of Gilgamesh. Had the epic originated in Babylon or Nippur, Eabani and Ukhat would have been brought to Babylon or Nippur.
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