All 6 Uses
serpent
in
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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- Like vipers, like dragons, like a scorching fire, like a serpent that freezes the heart, a destroying flood and the lightning's fork, such were they and Gilgamesh rejoiced.†
Book 2serpent = snake
- Glorious Shamash heard his prayer and he summoned the great wind, the north wind, the whirlwind, the storm and the icy wind, the tempest and the scorching wind; they came like dragons, like a scorching fire, like a serpent that freezes the heart, a destroying flood and the lightning's fork.†
Book 2
- He is fashioning the serpent prow of the boat.†
Book 4
- Gilgamesh saw a well of cool water and he went down and bathed; but deep in the pool there was lying a serpent, and the serpent sensed the sweetness of the flower.†
Book 6 *
- Gilgamesh saw a well of cool water and he went down and bathed; but deep in the pool there was lying a serpent, and the serpent sensed the sweetness of the flower.†
Book 6
- Bread for Neti the Keeper of the Gate, bread for Ningizzida the god of the serpent, the lord of the Tree of Life; for Dumuzi also, the young shepherd, for Enki and Ninki, for Endu-kugga and Nindukugga, for Enmul and Ninmul, all the ancestral gods, forbears of Enlil.†
Book 7
Definitions:
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(1)
(serpent) a snake
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) For less common senses of "serpent", see a comprehensive dictionary.