conciousness in the epic of gilgamesh
...en he was uncivilized. Endiku thought that the animals were one of him and that there was nothing else besides them. There was no competition in nature it was all one. After the harlot had sexual intercourse with Endiku he suddenly felt competition with Gilgamesh and said that he would go off and “challenge” him. The effects of consciousness in Genesis are quite similar. After eating the forbidden tree’s apples Adam and Eve become consciences that they are naked and go cover themselves with leaves. Before the two ate the apples they did not know what naked was. Genesis says once they ate the apples there eyes opened. This sentence means that they opened there eyes to what civilized people think and act. The consciousness of Adam also forced him to have to work for what he wanted much like modern men have to do today. Adam had it easy before there wasn’t anything to get in his way of gathering food, but now there were thorns and such things that provided a hindrance to his eating. ...