Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Gilgamesh Tablets II and III

In this chapter we start to sense a relationship between Enkidu and Gilgamesh given that they are both big, powerful, and fearful men, I think I can relate to the bond they had because I think I am very similar to my friends just like Enkidu relates to Gilgamesh. Enkidu, the wilderness man is earing food and drinking beer with the prostitute, he then learns that some people are going to Uruk, the city of Gilgamesh. Enkidu demands that he is taken to Uruk where he meets Gilgamesh and challenges him, Gilgamesh accepts the challenge and wrestles Enkidu to his knees, which causes Enkidu to say: You are the strongest of all, the perfect, the terror. When enkidu says this he is accepting and acknowledging that Gilgamesh is much more powerful and fearful than himself. Then they debate on who should go to the forest first to go to heaven, and they finally decide that the wild man Enkidu is better suited for the quest. His purpose is to kill the demon hateful to the sun god. Then Shamash adopts Enkidu with a ritual involving a sacred pendant. Enkidu and Gilgamesh remind me of old cowboy movies where two inseparable buddies fight evil and crimes together. Will the friendship of Enkidu and Gilgamesh last long?

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