1) Thataka first seen on page 11
2) Thataka was born a demigod with two sons named Mareecha and Subahu, who after trying to avenge their husband/father’s death buy killing a saint are cursed and turned into demons. Thataka presides over a barren land and kills those who tread on it.
3) This character reminds me of Humbaba from Gilgamesh. Though Humbaba is a guardian of a forest and was not once a god he still is watching over a lot of land and kills those who come into the forest just like Thataka does with those who enter her desert, “…this my kingdom, I have crushed out the minutest womb of life and you have been sent down so that I may not remain hungry.” (12). Also, surprisingly they are both killed by the hero(es) in the epic.
4) This character is defiantly NOT a hero. First, she is a god turned demon who eats people who walk through her land and second, she is killed by page 13 by Rama the main character and hero of this Epic as it would seem.
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I agree that Thataka is similar to Humbaba, but Thataka was left to guard the desert because she and her family "laid waste their surroundings"(11). What Humbaba was doing was his job, but Thataka created around her a place where "Nothing flourises"(12). Humbaba attempted to keep Cedar Forest from being ruined, Thataka destroyed what "was once fertile"(12).
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