Although he perceives that the cottagers had a "method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds", he is baffled by the process because many words

Hi! Unfortunately, I can't give you the precise answer because your question is incomplete. I guess you should have options for the word missing, so I'll try to help you anyways, so that you can do this task by yourself.

Explanation:

As I said before, you probably have options for completing the sentence. You should carefully read the sentence again and carefully study the options. You will realize that there is one that makes total sense, according to the context and the whole idea of the text. If you feel that there is more than one option that would suit the sentence, just think of the whole text as a single idea and choose the one that you see completes the idea and spirit of the text. Don't worry you'll do fine, you just have to pay attention and choose the one word that best fits the sentence and its spirit. Remember it has to be only one word, since you have only one line and that gives you the idea that what is missing is just one word.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

hope this !