Epic Of | Gilgamesh Full Version

Prologue: The Walls of Uruk Look upon Uruk-the-Sheepfold, the city of high-walled ramparts. Climb the layered brick stairs and touch the foundation terrace, whose kiln-fired clay gleams like copper. Examine the cedar threshold, whose massive beams were hewn from distant mountains. No later king, not even the mightiest, could match such work.

He came to the twin peaks of Mount Mashu, whose gates were guarded by scorpion-men whose terror was death. The scorpion-man saw the desperation in his eyes. "No mortal has passed this mountain. But go. The path of the sun is ahead." epic of gilgamesh full version

The gods wept. Ishtar screamed, "How could you destroy my people?" Enlil was furious—but Ea shamed him. "You made the flood without reason. Punish the guilty, not the innocent." Enlil relented and granted Utnapishtim eternal life. Prologue: The Walls of Uruk Look upon Uruk-the-Sheepfold,

"I have lost my brother Enkidu. I have sat at his graveside. Now I am afraid of death. I want to find Utnapishtim, the Faraway, who survived the Flood." No later king, not even the mightiest, could match such work