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Various occurrences of wrestling in the world's mythologies: *The Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian literature features its hero Gilgamesh establishing his credibility as a leader after wrestling Enkidu. Other sculptures and literature from ancient Mesopotamia show that wrestling was held in popularity.〔"Wrestling, Freestyle" by Michael B. Poliakoff from ''Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present'', Vol. 3, pp. 1189, 1193, eds. David Levinson and Karen Christensen (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 1996).〕 *''The Iliad'' describes Aias and Odysseus wrestling against each other.〔''Gyldendals store konversasjons-leksikon'', 1972 (third edition), p.2563, ISBN 978-82-05-00267-8〕 *One other early description of wrestling appears in the Hebrew Book of Genesis (32:22-32). The passage depicts the patriarch Jacob wrestling with the Angel, for which Jacob was subsequently renamed ''Israel''. (Israel translates to "wrestles (or strives) with God".) *The Sanskrit epic ''Mahabharata'' describes the encounter between the accomplished wrestlers Bhima and Jarasandha; "grasping each other in various ways by means of their arms, and kicking each other with such violence as to affect the innermost nerves, they struck at each other's breasts with clenched fists. With bare arms as their only weapons roaring like clouds they grasped and struck each other like two mad elephants encountering each other with their trunks".〔 〕 *Thor wrestled against Ella.〔''Gyldendals store konversasjons-leksikon'', 1972 (third edition), p. 2564, ISBN 978-82-05-00267-8〕 〔Narrated in Edda, by Snorre.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wrestling mythology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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