Epic of Gilgamesh - heroic epic poem from Ancient Mesopotamia, found on clay tablets from the library of Ashurbanipal (7th Century B.C.)
Gilgamesh - fifth king of Uruk after the Flood; means "Gilga the hero"
Uruk - north of Ur
"He who saw everything in the broad-boned earth, and knew what was to be known
Who had experienced what there was, and had become familiar with all things
He, to whom wisdom clung like cloak, and who dwelt together with Existence in Harmony
He knew the secret of things and laid them bare."
"He was two-thirds god, one third man," - How can this be???
"Eleven cubits high he is, nine spans his chest" - Mesopotamian cubit=20.999958 inches; Sumerian cubit=20.4 inches; span=1/2 a cubit. Gilgamesh about 19 feet tall and nearly 8 feet wide.
Motif: thirds - both Gilgamesh and Uruk "One third is city; One third is orchards; One third is clay pits". Also, a motif of twinness - Gilgamesh and Uruk.