Gilgamesh was the King of Sumeria and a pawn of Dahak.
When Gilgamesh was fighting an army of pagans who were invading Sumeria, his wife and child were killed. He blamed the gods, especially his father, Ra. In his anger and despair, he was approached by Dahak and vowed to serve him.
To fulfill Dahak's plan, Gilgamesh needed help to infiltrate the Pyramid of the Gods and drink nectar from the Chalice of the Gods. He had his priest, Imuru, find Hercules because he needed the strength of another demi-god. While working with Hercules, Gilgamesh developed a true affinity for the man. Their stories were similar (the deaths of their wives and children in particular). However, Hercules clarified that he still had hope for humanity, which differed from Gilgamesh’s newfound nihilistic worldview.
After betraying Hercules' trust and drinking from the Chalice of the Gods, Gilgamesh revealed his plan to help Dahak enter the world and kill the Gods before enslaving all mankind. The last step was to offer the sacrifice of a "Warrior Heart." Gilgamesh planned to kill his half sister, Nebula, as the sacrifice. During a fierce battle, Iolaus saved Nebula by sacrificing himself. Infuriated, Gilgamesh's human appearance shifted into a more demonic form and began morphing into a monster while charging at Hercules in an ill-planned out final assault. However, he was no match for Hercules, who killed him by throwing him into the fires of Dahak. It was not until sometime later that Hercules realized that Iolaus' death was the sacrifice Dahak needed to enter the world (HTLJ "Faith").
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- Gilgamesh (𒄑𒂆𒈦 /ˈɡɪl.ɡə.mɛʃ/: Gilgameš) was a King of Uruk in Mesopotamia (now modern Iraq), who lived sometime between 2800 and 2500 BC. The son of King Ubar-tutu and Ninsun, the dream-goddess, he is the main character in the Epic of Gilgamesh, a Mesopotamian poem that is considered the first great work of literature.
- In the epic, Gilgamesh is a demigod of superhuman strength who built the city walls of Uruk to defend his people and travelled to meet the sage Utnapishtim, who survived the Great Deluge. According to the Sumerian King List, Gilgamesh ruled his city for 126 years. In the Tummal Inscription, Gilgamesh and his son Urlugal rebuilt the sanctuary of the goddess Ninlil in Tummal, a sacred quarter in her city of Nippur. Although Greek demigods were Half-god, Gilgamesh was two-thirds god, since he had three parents, two of whom were gods.
- In Egyptian Mythology, Ra is the Egyptian sun god, known as Atum-Ra in the Late Egyptian period; he is not Sumerian deity. Ra also appears as a title in the names of several later Egyptian gods.
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