Enkidu Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Enkidu? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Enkidu from Under Night In Birth and what is the personality traits.
INFJ (9w1)
Enkidu personality type is INFJ, which is one of the rarest personality types in the world.
The only other known INFJ in the world is Neil Gaiman’s Sandman character, The Dream King.
One of the things I love about Enkidu is that he’s willing to do anything, no matter how dangerous or frightening, if it means achieving peace. He doesn’t care about what others think of him or what society would think of him. He doesn’t care about what his father would say or what his people would think of him. He knows in his heart that what he does matters and matters in a way that transcends any worldly judgement. It matters in a way that doesn’t have to be rationalized or justified or questioned. Enkidu doesn’t care what you think of him when he goes into the wilderness to fight monsters. In Enkidu’s mind, he’s just doing what he needs to do to find a better life for himself and his people. And I think that’s a wonderful message for us to take from this story.
Enkidu is a hero for our time.
Enkidu was a legendary figure in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, wartime comrade and friend of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Their exploits were composed in Sumerian poems and in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, written during the 2nd millennium BC. He is the oldest literary representation of the wild man, a recurrent motif in artistic representations in Mesopotamia and in Ancient Near East literature. The apparition of Enkidu as a primitive man seems to be an innovation of the Old Babylonian version, as he was originally a servant-warrior in the Sumerian poems. There have been suggestions that he may be the "bull-man" shown in Mesopotamian art, having the head, arms, and body of a man, and the horns, ears, tail and legs of a bull. Thereafter a series of interactions with humans and human ways bring him closer to civilization, culminating in a wrestling match with Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Enkidu embodies the wild or natural world.
