Take the Bull by the Horns: Gilgamesh

I think that these two parts completely changed the idea that I had of polytheistic peoples and how thir stories reflect their urge to bend the rules to a possibility of breaking them; though they're afraid because they think of the consecuences being worse. This is represented when Enkidu takes the bull by the horns and kills it with the help of Gilgamesh. This was wrong for two reasons: One: Because the bull was there with a task to accomplish and they did'nt let it accomplish it,and Two: because the was a HOLY BULL from the heavens.
I feel that it is interesting how the sumartians represented feelings and simple characteristics. For instance, goddess Ishtar would have the characteristics of a currently "easy" woman, though when Gilgamesh rejects her having physical interest in him, she feels hurt and rejceted(which rarely happens). "The lovely sheperd bird whom Ishtar loved, who's wing you broke and now wing-broken cries."pg. 30
Surely these feelings are known since the beggining of humanity (so to speak.) What makes me wonder is how they had enough words to explain those feelings.
As well, in the Odyssey, since there is great talk about women and there is no way that anybody coul've lived all of those things being that they were so far apart but happened around the same time, there is no sure way to know if Homer is the real author, of if this is just a pen name. For these same reasons, I'm in debate if the author was a Man or a Woman. Or even a group of people.