Gilgamesh Tablet 10 And Relationship With Nature: Where Are We Going?

A part that I didn’t understand was the part of the drum and the drumstick that fell. What I could get from it is that a very precious item of Gilgamesh fell to the Nether World. “Then Enkidu went down to the Nether World not heeding the admonishments of the king” pg 86 This part reminds me when a mother tells a don or daughter not to do something because this will happen and the daughter or son does this and exactly what the mother told would happen happens. “The Nether World itself was that seized him; Ereshkigal the Queen it was who held him.” Pg 90 Enkidu must have been a great person because in the Nether world none of the lesser demons got him, the only thing that could get him was the whole reign, the Queen. “I will not tell you. If I told you how it is in the Nether World, the arrangement of things, you would sit down and weep because I told you.” Pg 90 Sometimes I also wonder what will be the afterlife. Normally I think it is going to be heaven with lots of food, pools, and fun things to do but sometimes I think of the bad side of afterlife like people crying, screaming, suffering and horrible things. Then we see that Enkidu tries to answer the question of where are we going by telling Gilgamesh of the Nether World. According to what I got from his explanation was that as more sons we have better our future. Is this really right? Will the fact that we have more or less sons affect our future?
Gilgamesh’s and Enkidu’s relationship with nature is very different at the beginning but at the end they change. “Enkidu was found in nature, he drank with animals and lived with them pg 5” Enkidu at the beginning was part of nature and coexisted with it. But after he was with the harlot everything changed. The animals did not want to be with him and he decided to go to Gilgamesh. The part where I really noticed that Enkidu became a nature destroyer or a person that wants to control it was in the Cedar Forest. Humans wanted control over the forest so they wanted to kill the demon Huwawa who was the guardian of the forest. Enkidu was part of nature and now he was killing nature so he was now enemy of nature. Another part was when Gilgamesh had to cross the sea to get to Uthnapishtim. He was weak compared to nature in this hugeness so we tend to think we are better and stronger than nature but sometimes nature overcomes us like in tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and many other natural disasters. I really think that the relation between Gilgamesh and nature is that humans really depend on nature to survive but we still want to destroy so we actually are not being the smartest species alive as we say we are.