Gilgamesh VI

In this tablet I was able to learn much more about Enkidu and Gilgamesh. After the event with the goddess Ishtar and how she wanted Gilgamesh so much made me realize how selfish we can sometimes be. It also made me think on how we close ourselves so much that when others get close or even say a simple thing to us we react in such a bad way that we start to judge them and overreacting. That leads us to different outcomes. We all have the right to decide what choices to make, but we have to know that depending what we chose there will be good or bad consequences. The same happens here. Ishtar was selfish and that led her to feeling really bad and having to hear those things from Gilgamesh. He insulted her and told her foulness, and that made him have to deal with the Bull of Heaven she sent. We see it everywhere and just like we saw in the story, we should be more careful. Again we get to see more of the bond there is between Gilgamesh and Enkidu, who fought and defeated the bull, and how they now call themselves brothers. I was able to get to know Enkidu much better in this few lines. He is always the positive one. The first one, the humble, “loving” one. Since the bull got there he started to defeat it and then Gilgamesh came along to be there to show he was powerful too. “Life of man is short, let us content with the Bull of Heaven, and win”, explains how positive Enkidu is by not even planning to win, just knowing it. He shows his “love” by supporting what Gilgamesh felt about Ishtar by threatening her. And is humble when after he had done almost all of the job of killing the bull he lets Gilgamesh stay with the trophy or the bulls horns, and them having to hear Gilgamesh going on and on about how strong he is and how he is so glorious that his sons will be secure by his fame. He just stays quiet; not complaining about what surrounds him. There is indeed a lot to learn from Enkidu, the wild one.