Kirsten with lamp

Gilgamesh
               "While the Keeper of the Forest was thus bound, Gilgamesh gripped the handle of his war-axe; he drew the sword and struck Humbaba with a thrust to the neck."
               The Epic of Gilgamesh are perhaps the oldest surviving writings in the world, and tell of the great hero (and his companion ~ the wild man Enkidu) of Sumerian and Babylonian mythic poetry.

'The Tribe Of Five-Hundred-One Prosper In Nineteen Bands Together In The New-Green Lands Of Tomorrow Dawn'

the tree Yggdrasil
               of the north-european mythology, with the hornless cow Audhumbla, one-eyed Woden, and Nidhogg gnawing at its roots.