entities: ENT_MES_GILGAMESH

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use category to filter by functional type (146 values: Underworld Deity, Hero, Adversarial Being, Revealer Figure, etc.). Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_MES_GILGAMESH Gilgamesh   Mesopotamian Hero / Semi-divine king Hero heroic quest; death; immortality; friendship; flood; semi-divine kingship       A           King of Uruk (c. 2700 BCE per Sumerian king lists); "two-thirds divine, one-third mortal" (son of Ninsun and the lugal Lugalbanda); protagonist of the oldest surviving literary epic; his exploits include: building Uruk's walls, journeying to the Cedar Forest with Enkidu to defeat Humbaba, rejecting Ishtar's proposal, slaying the Bull of Heaven (with Enkidu), and after Enkidu's death, seeking immortality from Utnapishtim; his failure to retain the plant of immortality and Utanapishtim's counsel ("when the gods created humanity they allotted death to humanity, but life they retained in their own keeping") is the foundational literary statement on human mortality hero

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