The Cedar Forest

The Cedar Forest is an ancient, mythological wilderness featured in the “Epic of Gilgamesh,” a Mesopotamian literary work. It’s depicted as a vast, sacred woodland filled with towering cedar trees, guarded by a formidable protector. This forest symbolizes divine natural beauty, strength, and the challenge of human exploration and heroism. In the story, the hero Gilgamesh ventures into the forest to cut down the cedars, which represents a significant act of bravery and confrontation with the divine order, highlighting themes of adventure, mortality, and the relationship between humans and nature.