Tablet 12 of Gilgamesh

THE END!!!

Just kidding

(not really).

:)

Enkidu's spirit was resurected from the Nether World. Gilgamesh asked questions...thats about it folks...

But I wouldn't leave you hanging. Gilgamesh falls through a hole in the floor to what is known as the Nether World, and the sudden image that comes into my head is that of poor Alice going down the rabbit hole. I was a little confused when starting this tablet beacause, as I said before, Enkidu is present, but it took me a minute to see that maybe this place that is starting to remind me of Wonderland is a place where people go to die. I wonder if its the Underworld? It seems t be, the way Enkidu describes it: after he walked through the House of Darkness, vermon started eating away at his body.

Enkidu claims that the fever demon, Ashak, "seized him" into the Nether World. He discovers that it was actually the Cry of Darkness that brought him there, but Ashak brought me back to my Alice in Wonderland theory. At first for some reason, Ashak reminded me of the duches in Lewis Carrol's first book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. When Enkidu said that Ashak had taken him against his own will I instantly thought of the wretched duchess taking people left and right, while yelling "Off with their head!"

All Alice thoughts aside, I felt that what the writer did was good, bringing the dynamic duo, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, together for the last time.