Eniku's Poem 'Epic Of Gilgamesh'

Epic of Gilgamesh is a long poem that is partitioned into twelve tablets. This poetry first starts off introduction of Gilgamesh who is 2/3 of god and 1/3 of human and a oppressive ruler of Uruk. The people of Uruk beg to Aruru who was the goddess of creation, to create a man that can be equal to Gilgamesh to challenge him to put a stop of his abusement of power. Aruru had created a wild man Enikdu who later transforms into a civilized man. After the transformation, Enikdu saw and found out Gilgamesh’s awful habits which angers him and challenges Gilgamesh in which Enikdu loses. However, the fight made the two to become great friends, together they battled, traveled to forests, almost anything they did was together. The friendship of Enkikdu

First point is when Enikdu wanted to challenged Gilgamesh for the reason Gilgamesh had a rule that he had the right to be the first one to sleep with the mans bride on their wedding day. So Enikdu challenged Gilgamesh to stop this behavioral. So, Gilgamesh accepted the fight and the two went at it. After the fight, the two unexpectedly became great friends, and at the start of friendship was turning point for Gilgamesh of learning virtues and humility. Second significant point is after Gilgamesh and Enikdu conquered Humbaba and “Bull of Heaven”, Enikdu was cursed and later in the story passed away Gilgamesh weaped for days and night for his friend. At that sorrowful event, Gilgamesh learned the value of friendship and when Enikdu was gone he felt empty and was afraid of death. Gilgamesh began his new journey to find immortality but fall short finding his answer. Gilgamesh talks to Siduri, the divine wine maker and she gave Gilgamesh great answer “where are you heading too? You will never find that life for which you are looking for. Fill your belly with good things, dance and be merry, rejoice, cherish your child and make your wife happy. After that event and the quote from Siduri was the third significant point, we can not cheat out of