This chapter is all about the mourning of Enkidu and what this did to Gilgamesh. Without his companion he was afraid to go alone on a journey but over all without him he was afraid of death. Now, our religion is all about salvation. We don’t want death to be something sad or painful. We have ideas of paradise to make death an easier thing to take in. Gilgamesh was afraid of death. He was a two thirds god. I am pretty sure that he knew what lied beyond yet he was still afraid of death. Why fear death if you know what comes next? It made no sense to me. Then I thought, maybe he fears death because he knows that there is suffering, pain, hunger and solitude. If what came after death were all of these things then maybe death was something to be feared and life something to be praised and kept to the last second. If you fear death even if you know what comes after then it must be pretty bad.
Another thing that I noticed on this chapter is what Gilgamesh felt without his companion. He had lost his confidence greatly, he was afraid to be for he had lost a part of him. Maybe he knew that he was weak without his helper, he had none of the knowledge of the wild Enkidu had and so he feared for his life. Of course the trip he did wasn’t to bring this precious companion back but instead he wanted immortality, he wanted to live forever and yet didn’t think that maybe his great companion Enkidu wanted this too. This was a very selfish act but it might show that Gilgamesh might have been more of a taker than a leaver. On class I had a conversation of why Gilgamesh was a taker or leaver as I said on a previous blog. I came to the conclusion that he wasn’t any of those. He had mixed Qualities of both. Gilgamesh was under the mercy of the god yet he ruled Uruk and I believe that he though as a taker that the world was made for him. This might seem contradictory but it isn’t. He believed that although the world was made for him, it was still god territory and therefore these being’s whims where to be done. Could this mean that the pass from Leaver to taker was gradual like evolution? If there are such beings as god why haven’t they talked and said anything of how we destroy creation like they did on the past? Why was Gilgamesh so afraid to be alone if he was so strong and powerful?
Another thing that I noticed on this chapter is what Gilgamesh felt without his companion. He had lost his confidence greatly, he was afraid to be for he had lost a part of him. Maybe he knew that he was weak without his helper, he had none of the knowledge of the wild Enkidu had and so he feared for his life. Of course the trip he did wasn’t to bring this precious companion back but instead he wanted immortality, he wanted to live forever and yet didn’t think that maybe his great companion Enkidu wanted this too. This was a very selfish act but it might show that Gilgamesh might have been more of a taker than a leaver. On class I had a conversation of why Gilgamesh was a taker or leaver as I said on a previous blog. I came to the conclusion that he wasn’t any of those. He had mixed Qualities of both. Gilgamesh was under the mercy of the god yet he ruled Uruk and I believe that he though as a taker that the world was made for him. This might seem contradictory but it isn’t. He believed that although the world was made for him, it was still god territory and therefore these being’s whims where to be done. Could this mean that the pass from Leaver to taker was gradual like evolution? If there are such beings as god why haven’t they talked and said anything of how we destroy creation like they did on the past? Why was Gilgamesh so afraid to be alone if he was so strong and powerful?
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