Gilgamesh Tablet XII

Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Neither World. This is the only tablet with a name and the only tablet thet is very different from the rest. I would say that this is a different poem about Gilgamesh and Enkidu. It has nothing to do with the rest of the epic. This tablet tells you a story about the Neither World. This is apparently the world of the dead. Gilgamesh looses his drum and his drumstick and Enkidu, being loyal as they describe him in the rest of the epic decides to go for it. They give him advice on what to do but he did completely the opposite that he was told. this is why the queen Ereshkigal of the Neither World and the cry of the dead kept him there. Here we find a coincidence with the rest of the epic. Again Enkidu is separated from Gilgamesh and again Gilgamesh feels incomplete without him. Gilgamesh goes to many of the gods to ask the for Enkidu. Finaly, the god, Ea, talked to Ereshkingal the queen and she lets Enkidu out. The next thing that happens is Gilgamesh and Enkidu get together again. Gilgamesh asks him many things about the Neither World.

For me the end of Gilgamesh was more on Tablet II. This tablet was more a different poem, but still reflected the same thing as the rest of it. Gilgamesh was not complete without Enkidu. On the first part, when Enkidu died, Gilgamesh suffered a lot. On this part, Gilgamesh did many things so that Enkidu could come back. One thing about the ending of this is I think it is incomplete. The tablets of this epic, were written in cuneiform and I would think that maybe there was some part of it lost because I think there has to be something more about the story of Gilgamesh. Even though, I still think that it is great having so old writings that help us a lot in understaning the past and of how people were, how much they idolized their leaders, like Gilgamesh saying that he was two thirds god and he was the strongest of all.