In Ezekiel 31, Assyria is compared to one of these features which “towered high and set its top among the clouds.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these natural features, which the voice of the LORD is said to “break” in Psalm 29:5. In a long poem, a warrior is frightened by a series of dreams featuring a mountain and a fire-breathing Thunderbird as he approaches a place named for these features.
ANSWER: the cedars of Lebanon [accept the Cedar Forest; prompt on trees or forests]
[10e] This companion of Gilgamesh helps him slay Humbaba in the Cedar Forest, where they cut down a mighty cedar to bring back to Uruk. This hero’s subsequent death inspires Gilgamesh’s quest for immortality.
ANSWER: Enkidu
[10m] In another poem, this beast’s tail is compared to a cedar. In that poem, the might of this land-dwelling beast is emphasized by the rhetorical question, “Can one take it with hooks / or pierce its nose with a snare?”
ANSWER: Behemoth (from the Book of Job)
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