Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Gilgamesh tablet 7

Enkidu is and has had one of his famous dreams. As in some previous dreams, there are many objects that symbolize something, so I made some interpretations. The dream starts out with a griffin. The griffin is described as aman with the head and paws of a lion, but talons of an eagle. The griffin grabs Enkidu and he tries to fight it off, but it doesn't loosen its grip. I think that the griffen symbolizes death. I think it is trying to say that death is coming for Enkidu, and he won't be able to avoid it. There was also a house of darkeness, The House of No Return. I think that this house symblizes straight up death, because once you die, theres no coming back. In the house, there were bodies of kings and princes from different kingdoms. This shows that nobody can escape death's grip, not even men of high class like kings and princes. Overall, this tablet was about death. Enkidu is about to die and it seems like somebdy is trying to tell him that through the dream.

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