In this book Gilgamesh began the search and destruction of evil in the world. Yet this is of course guided by a god or some sort of vision of it. Although his intentions are good what he may be doing might not be so. If we go back to Ishmael and see this with his point of view it is clear that Gilgamesh is a taker. He knows good and evil and he believes that the Huwawa is evil, but really is he? If we take this from another perspective maybe Huwawa isn’t evil at all. He was guardian of the cedar forest and his mission was to protect it against invaders. Although he wasn’t really hurting anyone in his isolated place Gilgamesh went out to hunt it. This might have been the beginning of the end for the cedar forest, without protector what will stop us from taking it down? Maybe what he did was good under his point of view but on the long run it is very bad for the development of our civilization.
Now this god that gave him strength to keep on going with the battle might have been his own mind telling him to stay on track and to not give up. Maybe the god he though to give him straight and to weaken his enemy was but this desire to accomplish what he had proposed himself to do for his people. Although Enkidu and Gilgamesh are present as tow different characters maybe they are one. Just as we have several layers of complexity Gilgamesh did too. It is possible that maybe part of him entered in conflict and that is what is showed by Enkidu and him fighting. What still makes me wonder is why was Enkidu so necessary to maintain the balance of Uruk. Everything seemed finding before he arrived and there seemed to be peace and happiness. Why was he such an essential piece to this if no mayor defect in the city is said? This maybe because Gigamesh had started to lose his way. He might have started to become something different than what he was. Because of this came Enkidu to balance things with in Gilgamesh and show him the right path. A part of him might have awakened to show him what his purpose was and propelled him o fight evil. Why did Gilgamesh believe so firmly that Huwawa went against the will of his god? Why did the demon have to die? Was it a demon? Could it have been the representation of evil in Gilgamesh’s mind? If all we see is under our point of view why do we want things that are “evil” to die? How do we know that they truly are evil?
Now this god that gave him strength to keep on going with the battle might have been his own mind telling him to stay on track and to not give up. Maybe the god he though to give him straight and to weaken his enemy was but this desire to accomplish what he had proposed himself to do for his people. Although Enkidu and Gilgamesh are present as tow different characters maybe they are one. Just as we have several layers of complexity Gilgamesh did too. It is possible that maybe part of him entered in conflict and that is what is showed by Enkidu and him fighting. What still makes me wonder is why was Enkidu so necessary to maintain the balance of Uruk. Everything seemed finding before he arrived and there seemed to be peace and happiness. Why was he such an essential piece to this if no mayor defect in the city is said? This maybe because Gigamesh had started to lose his way. He might have started to become something different than what he was. Because of this came Enkidu to balance things with in Gilgamesh and show him the right path. A part of him might have awakened to show him what his purpose was and propelled him o fight evil. Why did Gilgamesh believe so firmly that Huwawa went against the will of his god? Why did the demon have to die? Was it a demon? Could it have been the representation of evil in Gilgamesh’s mind? If all we see is under our point of view why do we want things that are “evil” to die? How do we know that they truly are evil?
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