Sunday, February 14, 2010

Gilgamesh tablets 4 & 5

As tablets 4 and 5 start, Gilgamesh and Enkidu are already in the Cedar Forest on their search of Huwawa. As the days pass, Gilgamesh keeps having these dreams that have him waking up flustered. He tells Enkidu about them and Enkidu reassures Gilgamesh that they don't mean anything bad. For example, Gilgamesh dreamt that a mountain was going to fall on him. Enkidu interpreted it as the fall of Huwawa. He said that Gilgamesh was going to defeat him and the big monster was going to fall. At the end of the tablet, Gilgamesh defeats Huwawa and he and Enkidu decide to take Huwawa'a head back to the city. They also decide to build a gate from the tallest tree of the cedar forest.

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