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Gilgamesh: Hero's Journey - Coggle Diagram

- - - - When Hades offers Hercules a deal, his strength for the release of Megara, Hercules willingly accepts, even though the Titans have risen, and he is the only one who could stop them. Megara soon dies after saving Herc.
- - - - Gilgamesh feels the need to go after the Humbaba and kill it. " We must kill [the Humbaba] and drive evil out from this world." (Mitchell 91) Gilgamesh longs for fame and glory, swaying his decision to go after the Humbaba. He states, "I must travel now to the Cedar Forest, / where the fierce monster Humbaba lives. / I will conquer him in the Cedar Forest." (Mitchell 94) a refusal of the quest is when Gilgamesh fears that he will die when confronting the Humbaba. When in the forest he states to Enkidu, "I feel haunted. I am too afraid to go on" (Mitchell 123) After his hesitation, Enkidu provided Gilgamesh with enough courage to continue on. Accepting the Call After Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh fears his own death. He then decides to seek out how to receive immortality. "Gilgamesh wept over Enkidu his friend, / bitterly he wept through the wilderness. / 'Must I die too? Must I be as lifeless/ as Enkidu? ... If only I could find the one man whom the gods made immortal, I would ask him how to overcome death." (159) This is his call to his true adventure, his quest to find immortality
- - - - When Hercules arrives in Thebes, Megara finds him and tells him that two kids have been trapped. So, Hercules goes to prove his heroism, little did he know the hydra would be waiting for him in the cave. His first big test was to defeat the beast.