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Post 292 A: The Great Serpent, part 3.

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Date Posted: 01:04:08 11/01/11 Tue
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Post 292 A: The Great Serpent, part 3.

The Epic of Gilgamesh:
The flood story from the Epic of Atrahasis was added to Table XI in the standard version of the Gilgamesh story.

King Gilamesh, find himself getting old, hears of a man who is immortal named Utnapishtim (Noah). Gilgamesh travels to meet Utnapishtim, to learn the secret of eternal life. Finding Utnapishtim, he tell Gilgamesh he was granted eternal life by the gods for surviving the Great Flood. That it was unique and never to be repeated. To prove the point of his uniqueness Utnapishtim challenges Gilgamesh to stay awake for six days and seven nights. Gilgamesh falls asleep as soon a Utnapishtim finishes speaking. Utnapishtim has his wife bake a loaf of bread for each day Gilgamesh is asleep, so he cannot deny his failure. The point being, Gilgamesh cannot overcome sleep, let-alone death. As Gilgamesh leaves broken-hearted, Utnapishtim's wife ask him to give Gilgamesh a parting gift. He tell Gigamesh of a Boxthorn-like plant at the bottom of the sea that will make Gilgamesh young again. Gigamesh retrieves the plant from the bottom of the sea. But, on his return trip, when he stops to bath the plant is stolen by a serpent that sheds its old skin for a new one as it has been reborn. As Gilgamesh approches his home of Uruk he praises its massive walls as the enduring works of mortal men. The indication being that mortals achieve immortality from lasting works of culture and civilization.

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