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________ argues that /"the intermediate role of the prostitute in transforming Enkidu from one at home with nature and wild animals into a human being is crucial /

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The ________ reminds Enkidu that Shamhat fed and clothed him.

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________ persuades him to follow her and join the civilized world in the city of Uruk, where Gilgamesh is king, rejecting his former life in the wild with the wild animals of the hills.

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________ plays the integral role in Tablet I, of taming the wild man Enkidu, who was created by the gods as the rival to the mighty Gilgamesh.

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Shamhat

Who was a sacred temple prostitute or harimtu .)

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Shamhat

________ (Akkadian:, romanized: am at; also called Shamkat in the old Babylonian version of Gilgamesh ")/is a female character who appears in Tablets I and II of the Epic of Gilgamesh and is mentioned in Tablet VII.

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