jueves, 4 de septiembre de 2008

Gilgamesh Tablets 10 and 11: The Plant Of Life?

“With your own hands you have made the crossing harder. You broke the talismans, you broke the Stone Things.” Pg 60 Gilgamesh was in so much desperation to get to Utnapishtim that he started destroying things he needed. Sometimes this happens to me. I sometimes want something really badly and end up screwing it up because i am nervous or because I pushed myself so hard to get it that the day I have to present I am tired. This can also mean that while you do something you are doing another thing unconsciously. This can also relate to Gilgamesh because when he decided to go and kill the demon and the bull they didn’t think that a curse could fall into them just because the goddess started to like Gilgamesh. “How long does hatred, for that matter, last?” pg 64 Hatred is a defect that can only be changed by you and you are the one that can determine how long it lasts. Sometimes people make mistakes, that are what a normal human would do, and you have to understand that. Hatred can end with only just one smile, one “sorry”, one “hi but it all depends if you take that signs and forgive people. “Take with you, on the boat you build, an instance of each thing living so that they may be safe from oliberation in the flood.” Pg 66 This really sounds familiar to the story of Noe and the Arc. Maybe this story is based on that one or that one is based on this one. Story really similar or almost the same as Noe, the one in the bible. I don’t know which story came first than the other but they are pretty much alike. The only difference is that in the bible there was only God and in Gilgamesh they were many gods. “And I will take my share of the magic plant, once more to become the one who is youngest and strongest.” All life people have searched for this kind of plant and no one has found it, but why is it granted to Gilgamesh?

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