"Here he is, courtesan; get ready to embrace him.
Open your legs, show him your beauty.
Do not hold back, take his wind away.
Seeing you, he will come near.
Strip off your clothes so he can mount you.
Make him know, this-man-as-he-was, what a woman is.
His beasts who grew up in his wilderness will turn from him.
He will press his body over your wildness" (Gilgamesh, 77).
"Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the beast of the field that the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, "Though God said, you shall not eat from any tree of the garden" And the woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the garden's trees we may eat, but from the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden God has said, "You shall not eat from it and you shall not touch it, lest you die." "And the serpent said to the woman, "You shall not be doomed to die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will become as gods knowing good and evil." And the woman saw that the tree was good for eating and that it was lust to the eyes and the tree was lovely to look at, and she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave to her man, and he ate" (Genesis, 11-13).
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The problem of woman is clearly depicted in both The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis. The fall of man dawns in the beginning of both books. Eve was created to keep Adam from being lonely and to reproduce; however, this was not the case, Eve was the fall of man. "And the Lord God said, "It is not good for the human to be alone, I shall make him a sustainer beside him" (Genesis, 9). Eve is lured by the serpent to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. She falls for the serpent and with no shame she takes a bite and also offers the precious fruit to Adam. Since Adam had no clue that the fruit was from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he also takes a bite and they both gain the knowledge that the serpent had told Eve about.
