Cedar Forest’s Connections

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Guarded by

• Humbaba

  Humbaba stood as the fearsome guardian of the Cedar Forest, his roar the deluge, his mouth fire, his breath death — a terror set over the sacred groves so that none dared trespass upon the cedars.

Serves

• Enlil

  Enlil assigned Humbaba to guard the Cedar Forest and clothed him in seven terrifying auras. The forest and its guardian were under Enlil's direct authority.

Associated with

• Enkidu,Gilgamesh

  Gilgamesh and Enkidu journeyed to the Cedar Forest to slay its guardian Humbaba and win eternal fame. They felled the great cedars and floated them down the Euphrates to build temples in Uruk.