ظلم الافعى لجلجامش وجدلية الخلود في العراق القديم

Abstract

      The universe has captured all the attention of the ancient man of Iraq since his inception on the surface of the globe. He meditated on the creation of the universe, man and the lower world, the creatures of darkness, and yearning for an immortal life. He also pondered carefully about man's relationship with the gods, Religion was one of the most important components of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, as it constituted a spiritual aspect of human thinking throughout the ages. Religious ideas and beliefs often determine the general structure of human behavior and affect his customs, traditions, customs, and his intellectual and spiritual structure. The inhabitants of ancient Iraq believed that their gods had the same qualities as humans, where the gods were depicted in human form, eating, drinking and getting angry, but they differed from them only in immortality and supernatural abilities, and it was difficult for humans to know their goals, but they were also sick and even close to death. The people of Mesopotamia feared the gods from their wrath, anger and punishment, which made man sanctify them and watch over their service and build homes for them and offer them offerings to gain their affection and affection.

     In every page of the literature of ancient Iraq of a religious, epic, moral or lyrical nature, it evokes the concepts of a sense of error, crime, punishment and retribution. Based on the foregoing, the tagged topic of our research was  chosen (How the snake stole the plant of life from Gilgamesh).

     The importance of the research comes about the interest of the ancient Iraqi man with the problem of life and death, thinking about finding solutions and obtaining eternal life, and his attempt to cling to existence and survival and the pursuit of a means of survival. In the research, we relied on a number of important Arab and foreign sources that helped us with valuable information distributed among the research pages.