Epic Of Gilgamesh: First Bigfoot In Literature

Enkidu, The World's First Wildman In The History Of Literature

   

The hunter found his pits for animals filled in with dirt and his snares pulled up. He knew who was doing this as he had seen him at the water hole, coming in with the herd of gazelles he lived with and drinking the water. His livelihood was being destroyed by a huge, hairy Wildman. His footprints were all around the water hole, and the hunter was afraid to go there. He returned home to talk with his father, telling him that the Wildman was "the mightiest in the land" and that his strength was "as mighty as a rock from the sky."
    This is from the Epic Of Gilgamesh, a heroic poem originating from Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and dates back to 2,100 B.C. It is considered the first great work in literature. It does not have a sole author and was written on tablets.

 Shamhat,The Temple Prostitute

                                        
    His father advised him that this was not a job for a man but for a woman, a woman so beautiful and sensual that she was a match for the mighty. He told his son to go to Uruk and get the harlot Shamhat, a temple prostitute. The hunter journeyed to Uruk and approached King Gilgamesh for permission to take the harlot Shamhat back with him. He described the Wildman as the mightiest in the land and told how he was destroying his pits and snares. Gilgamesh, who thought he was the mightiest in the land and constantly fought other men to prove it, was interested in this request. He told the hunter to take Shamhat with him to the water hole, and when the herd of gazelles and the Wildman came in, the hunter lying in wait with Shamhat "should strip off her rainments to reveal her charms."
    The hunter took the incomparable temple prostitute with him, and they came to the water hole after a three day walk. They quietly waited for the gazelles and the Bigfoot-type to appear. On the second day the gazelles and the Wildman finally appeared. The hunter told Shamhat, "Uncradle your bosom, bare your sex, let him take in your charms. He instructed her to ignore the Wildman's smell and to"spread your clothing as he may lie on you. Do for the man the work of a woman."
    Shamhat did as she was told and "for six days and seven nights, Enkidu was erect, as he coupled with Shamhat." When he finally had enough, his head was dazed, and his legs were weak. He looked at his gazelles, but he smelled differently and the gazelles shied away from him and ran off. "But now he had reason and wide understanding" because of sexual intercourse with Shamhat, a common misconception in those times about Wildmen who had sex with civilized women.
                                                                                                                  

Gilgamesh, The King Of Uruk

                                                  
     Enkidu is persuaded by Shamhat to travel to Uruk and meet King Gilgamesh. She bathes him and trims the hair he is coated in. They journey to the city-state of Uruk where Enkidu is displeased by Gilgamesh's brutality toward others. Little does he know that he has been created because the people of Uruk have asked two goddesses, Anu and Aruru, the creator of mankind, for protection from Gilgamesh. Aruru washes her hands, takes a pinch of clay and throws it into the wilderness, creating Enkidu, the Wildman. He is their means to tame King Gilgamesh's arrogance. Enkidu and Gilgamesh fight, but Gilgamesh, though stronger and able to kill Enkidu,admires the strength and honorable behavior of the Wildman, and like many men who fight each other, they become fast friends. For years, they travel about making heroic conquests subduing amazing monsters. Enkidu eventually dies, and Gilgamesh first becomes deeply depressed and then terrified of death. He wants immortality yet he is only two-thirds a god. Finally, he reconciles himself to the humble realization that if he leaves a legend of good deeds after his death, he will live forever in them. Fortuitously this was something he had already begun with the hairy Wildman, Enkidu, and now his path is clear and bright. Arrogance has been bridled.
    The Epic Of Gilgamesh is a heroic poem originating from Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and dates back to 2,100 B.C. It is considered the first great work of literature and was written on tablets.
    Nick's Analysis: In the Bigfoot literature, I have read, there is only one mention of following the precedent of using a voluptuous woman as bait for the Wildman. In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of Russians was making summer expeditions into the Gisar Mountains. The Gisars are in Tadzhiskistan in the western Pamirs, and the expeditions were to find the Almas, probably the most advanced of the world's Bigfoot-types. They were widely known to barter with humans, and some stories claimed they ate with humans inside the peasants' homes. The 1980 summer expedition had great success using a heroically built and sensual young woman of only eighteen as a lure. Her name was Nina Grinyova, and she was placed, willingly it is claimed, in a hollow near a river to attract an Almas who were locally known as Gosha. He appeared, began walking toward her, and she reciprocated by walking toward him. I have read of one person walking toward a stationary Bigfoot and others going after departing Bigfoot, but never one walking toward an approaching Bigfoot. Nina had been given a toy to squeak to attract Gosha so she squeaked it several times, probably out of nervousness. One would think that she had no nerves. Gosha responded to the alien sound by veering off and walking away. He stopped, gazed at her once and then went on. Nina went to the river to call to her friends there, went into shock, and fell to the ground. She recovered quickly and went on subsequent expeditions. She remarked that the Almas moved with the grace of a panther, never stumbling as he walked smoothly through extremely rocky ground. Nina Grinoyova is now a Russian journalist. The expedition leader was duly criticized for using the beautiful young woman as bait for the Bigfoot-type. But like Shamhat, she was successful in bringing a Wildman in. However, leaving a woman out in the woods unarmed to meet a Bigfoot-type is immoral and legally actionable- at least in the United States. Letting an eye-catching woman or man walk around the campsite in the buff, well guarded by men who are experienced hunters, with bear and buffalo guns hidden but instantly available is another thing. I suspect this is being done, but not widely reported. It is such an obvious play as all species have an overwhelming urge to reproduce and will do almost anything to do so, especially the male. Peter Nickerson, 352-359-0850

    Books Used:

1. The Evidence For Bigfoot And Other Man-Beasts (1984), By Janet And Colin Bord

2. The Epic Of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian (1999), Translated By Andrew George

Bigfoot Twists Bear's Jaw Almost Off

Bigfoot Twists Bear's Jaw Almost Off: Story And Nick's Analysis. From Raincoast
Sasquatch by Robert Alley. Published in 2003.
    This event took place near the Porrand Canal on the mainland of South Alaska in 1968. Commercial fisherman Patty [sic] Kristovich, Jr. told the author, Robert Alley, that his father and he were hunting in the timbered flats three miles northwest of Hyper on the Salmon River. It was early morning, and they heard something louder than a bear or moose moving close by. In time, they realized it was circling them so they waited for it to show itself. It refused to and eventually went away. The two hunters looked around. There was no snow to help with tracking. They found no tracks. Patty's father said to him, " It was good at hiding its tracks."
    On another occasion near there, the father shot a brown bear whose jaw was almost torn off. Plus, it had a front paw smashed. There were no wounds on the bear's body or any bite marks as you would expect from a bear fight. Patty said, "It gave us a curious feeling."
    Nick's Analysis: Obviously, I'm going to say that the bear's jaw was probably almost torn off by a male Bigfoot. Below, see picture of two brown bears fighting. As far as is commonly known, no picture of a Bigfoot and a brown bear fighting exists, not even the typical blurry Bigfoot picture. You can see though how accessible the lower jaw of the brown bear on the right is to giant hands with immense strength. Both sides of the jaw could be held and twisted. He does not tuck his jaw in like a boxer but extends it, opening it up for manipulation. The injury was the work of a hand not a paw of a brown bear or a moose antler or a man's bullet. None of these could almost twist a bear's jaw off. Also, the bear's front paw was either smashed by the Bigfoot stomping on it like a Mixed Martial Arts fighter or hit by a large boulder or club wielded by the Bigfoot. An earlier post discussed a giant brown bear in Russia thoroughly whipped by a male Bigfoot protecting his partner and their cub. The Bigfoot used a limb he tore off during the fight. That shows thinking under extreme pressure which is more man-like than ape.
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Sumatra's Orang-Pendek Breaks Into Shed

Sumatra's Orang-Pendek (Bigfoot) Breaks Into A Shed For Sugar Cane. Story And Analysis. From Orang-Pendek, published in 2010, page 244.
    While on an expedition to Sumatra to camera-hunt the Orang-Pendek, Fortean Society team members talked with a framer who said that the boards of his sugar cane shed had been ripped off by a Orang trying to get to the harvested sugar cane. Illustration of Orang-Pendek below. A picture has yet to be successfully taken.
    Nick's Analysis: Instead of going on to slash its way through hot and dangerous jungles hoping to blunder into a deaf and blind Orang, the team would have been better served by paying the farmer to set up a blind at his sugar shack and by buying some of the cane to put outside for the Orang. If the Orang was no longer coming into his farm, the team should have searched for another location where an Orang was coming in. Giving farmers money to put up blinds works in the direction of farmers resisting killing Orang-Pendeks if they can make money from people who want to photograph them. Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850 or peternickerson12@yahoo.com.
 

Episcolpalian Musings
    At church yesterday, I figuratively saw the priest walk over bodies of murdered Christians as she walked in a procession holding the Bible above her head with both hands. This procession is a ritual at every service. Those figurative bodies were people who are killed every week all over the world because they are Christians. Sometimes there are over a hundred of them killed at a time.
    It is not that people are ignored at our church. Church events are held to benefit the homeless shelters. There is a filled food basked destined for the Drop-In Center pointedly placed in front of The Table where Holy Eucharist is given. The Drop-In Center provides free food, clothing, food, shoes, sleeping bags, and showers for the homeless and poor. The Church warmly welcomes lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders. It has even tolerated me so far, and I think I am a guard dog on a lifelong mission to protect humans and other guard dogs from the wolves! The last priest married a fellow male, and the congregation turned out for their wedding reception- at the church. Try that at my former church- a First Baptist in Florida! The diocese has just released a year-end video about their plethora of secular missions and events. So why aren't Christians murdered for simply being Christians not recognized at my church. I hope it's just a matter of time -a very brief time.

Bigfoot Kills And Eats Another

    Bigfoot Kills And Eats Another: Story And Nick's Analysis. Reported by Ray Crowe, pioneering Bigfoot writer and hunter. Found at Robert Lindsay's website under "Why No Bigfoot Bones And Bodies?" Picture of Ray Crowe below.
    This event happened at Copper Mountain, near Brewster, Washington. Two men were hiking in the Okanagon Mountains and saw two Bigfoot fighting. The larger one was 12 feet tall. The two creatures rolled in the dirt, punching and scratching, and throwing logs and dirt at one another. The smaller one tripped, and the 12 foot Bigfoot smashed his head with a big rock, killing him. The victor tore a hole into his dead adversary's stomach, pulled out his intestines, and ate them.
    Nick's Analysis: We should not be disgusted by cannibalism. Sometimes, even among us moderns stranded in distant places, it is the most loving thing to do with corpses. Additionally, early human fossils have been found with butchery cuts on their bones.
    www.blackfloridapanther.blogspot.com thanks you for your visit. I would be happy to hear your Bigfoot sighting, comments, or questions. Peter Nickerson, at peternickerson12@yahoo.com or 352-359-0850.

Like Neanderthal, Is Bigfoot Going Extinct?

    Like the Neanderthal, is Bigfoot going extinct? Report and Nick's Analysis. From Lone Survivor; How We Came To Be The Only Humans On Earth by Dr. Chris Stringer, eminent British anthropologist and researcher at the Natural History Museum in London. Published in 2012, page 195.
    When humans started moving into Europe, there were only 3,500 breeding Neanderthal females in Europe and Western Asia. This gave Neanderthals very
little genetic diversity and made them susceptible to mutations. The complete reconstructed mt-DNA genomes of six Neanderthals from Germany, Spain, Croatia, and Russia differ at only 55 locations out of a total of more than 16,000 base pairs. This is far less than in modern humans and only a tiny fraction of the variability found in great ape species today. The estimate of only 350 breeding female Neanderthals came from studying the genomes of the six Neanderthals just mentioned. Thus, inbreeding was threatening the existence of the Neanderthal just as humans came upon the scene from Africa to compete with him and also threaten his existence.
    Nick's Analysis: I have previously pointed out the wild variability of the number of toes Bigfoot tracks display - three to seven - as a possible indication of inbreeding as well as two sightings of Bigfoot in North America having tails.
It is frightening that so many so-called enviromentalists also support unfettered, illegal immigration into America, thereby turning the enviroment into developments and killing American flora and fauna. One wonders if these "enviromentalists" are inbreeding like the Neanderthals did. Saving habitats is essential to our wildlife, but also connecting them with wildlife corridors can make up for some of the rapidly diminishing wild land. This will allow the spread of genetic diversity necessary to avoid inbreeding and eventual extinction. For example, state employees have brought the Texas cougar to Florida to breed with the Florida panther who were showing extreme genetic stress and mutations. The population is doing much better. The new individuals are healthier and showing more vigor such as in tree climbing. But their habitat continues to shrink, and getting from one wild area to another is often marked by death by vehicles. Florida has used corridors built under the lethal I-75 successfully but needs money to build wildlife bridges over the county roads where panthers try to cross too.
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I would be happy to discuss your Bigfoot sighting with you. Perhaps, you will get a perspective to add to the very rare experience. Questions and comments also welcomed. Peter Nickerson, peternickerson12@yahoo.com and 352-359-0850.
Class of '68, William & Mary. Been around long time.Know a lot of the games.

Bigfoot Terror And Infrasound

Bigfoot Terror And Infrasound. Information, Story, And Nick's Analysis. From the book, The Yowie, by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper. Both men are Australians and long term Bigfoot hunters and collectors of Bigfoot stories. Published in 2006. Page 85, 172.
    When considering whether infrasound has anything to do with the terror phenomenon that comes with a Yowie (Australian Bigfoot) encounter, one may consider that sounds in the range of 18.9 hz can cause not only fear and anxiety but also blurred vision, hyperventilation, headaches, imagined drop in the ambient temperature, gagging sensations, and nausea. After your Bigfoot sighting, you may feel marked fatigue. p.172
    Dean, a muscular amateur boxer, was jogging on the Gold Coast in New South Wales, Australia when he stopped to phone his girlfriend. A Yowie began openly walking toward him through the bush. This is how the Yowie's infrasound affected Dean, the boxer: "This thing came up to about 30 meters behind me, and I was about 12 meters from the bush line
 and suddenly I had this almost indescribable chill from my head to my toes. This unfamiliar and hugely terrifying sensation just overtook my entire body... I just stopped dead, stopped talking." p.85
    Nick's Analysis: Dean was able to run around a corner of the bush and get away from the Yowie. The Yowie tried to cut him off at the corner, but Dean, a regular runner, was able to get to the corner first because of his lead on the Bigfoot. There are seven mammals now recognized by the mainstream as emitting infrasound, including the okapi, the elephant, and closer home, the alligator. Besides Bigfoot being physically overwhelming and possibly an ET, voicing infrasound may the reason or another reason he is terrifying to people, often so terrifying that people won't go into woods again or if he is seen on a road, won't take that road again.
www.blackfloridapanther.blogspot.com thanks you for your visit. A Bigfoot or Wildman story with Nick's Analysis generally is published every weekday. I would be happy to discuss your sighting and maybe give you some insights into it. Comments and questions are welcomed too. Peter Nickerson. Class of 1968, William & Mary. peternickerson12@yahoo.com or call 352-359-0850.
   

Exceptional Person Walks To Bigfoot

    Exceptional Person Walks To Bigfoot: Story And Nick's Analysis. From the book Bigfoot Encounters In New York And New England by Robert and Paul Bartholomew. Published in 2008. Pages 70-71
    Two young men returned to their car after hiking out of the woods from a cookout at a camp. By the headlights of their car, Eric Durant and Frederick Perry saw the huge outline of a creature in some bushes fifty yards off the trail they had followed back to their car. The animal stood six to seven feet tall, had dark brown hair, and strange, glowing eyes. Both emphasized to the reporter that it stood on two legs, and they were sure it was not a bear. Frederick Perry got out of the car and walked toward it. The creature quickly disappeared in the dark. Perry's remark to his buddy was, "Whatever it was, it didn't look like it was going to harm you."
    Nick's Analysis: I can think of only one other incident of a human approaching the Bigfoot. Usually people are traumatized merely by seeing him, often forever.
For example, some hunters never hunt again. The other example happened in Australia when a Yowie - Australian Bigfoot- seized a baby whom the parents had put on the ground momentarily. The father ran after the Yowie, caught up with him, and pulled his child out of the Yowie's grasp. That ended it.
    Frederick Durant didn't have a father's courage and determination when he approached his Sasquatch- the American Bigfoot- but I am sure that as a young man of twenty-two, he had a high testosterone level and as a guest at a cookout in the woods, I suspect he was intoxicated. Both conditions aid in approaching the Boss Of The Woods. You may have noticed that the two men saw Bigfoot at the end of the trail where their car was parked. I would guess that the Big Boy was observing the party at the cookout and paralleled the two men out of the woods when they left the party. The reporting of glowing eyes in not unusual. It does not seem to be eye shine either. It is a mystery. Pennsylvania has the most reports of glowing eyes, usually red. Pennsylvania probably has the most UFO sightings of any state too.
    www.blackfloridapanther.blogspot.com thanks you for your visit. It usually publishes a Bigfoot story and Nick's analysis every weekday. I will be happy to discuss your Bigfoot sightings with you or any comments or questions. Peter Nickerson at peternickerson12@yahoo.com or phone 352-359-0850.