As I read the first three tablets of "The Tale of Gilgamesh" I connected these pages of the book to many stories of ancient Greece because of the temple prostitute. In ancient greek temples, prostitutes would be "living" in the temples for men to go and have fun in the presence of the since love was the creation of a god (Aphrodite) which is also the goddess of sexual intercourse and beauty. I remembered the story of Medusa. The story is majorly about when Poseidon had intercourse with Medusa (before she was a "snaked hair" gorgon) in the temple of his niece Athena (goddess of wisdom and war) and out of anger Athena cursed her to be the ugliest creature in Greece. So ugly and horrible that people would turn into stone if made direct eye contact with her.
Also, these first pages of the book reminded me to the Disney movie of "The Emperor's New Groove" which is the story of the Emperor of the Inca empire in Peru. The reason why this connects is because he was the supreme of the greatest city of the empire. City that was so great and marvelous everybody wanted to go there; just like Uruk in the book. Also that Gilgamesh is the supreme leader in the book; just like Kuzco in the movie.
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