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P a g e | 38 Tablet X “Worn out am I now from endless roaming and crying too. What direction should I take to Utnapishtim, immortal that he be? Point me the way to his doorstep so from him I may learn the secret of ever-lasting life, Free beyond death‟s deep, deep lake. Where can he be? Tell me how to venture there where I may learn his secrets.” 130 140 Finally, Urshanabi uttered these honest words to Gilgamesh: “You yourself have brought this on by destroying Enlil, set guardian of cedar forest far, And did you not break the stony image of the Bull of Heaven with your very own axe? For this sacrilege do you now repent? If so give your axe in, give me sixty poles and sixty poles for yon boat of mine. Now, head shamed sorely like muscles over pulled, Gilgamesh did raise his axe to strike Cedar trees down in order to make poles for ferryboat on high. So sixty poles, then sixty more did Gilgamesh make with axe and sword. Brass rings did he make, and in pitch did these he set So pole could be held with hand in steady spot. With this wood brought to Urshanabi, They made the boat ready to be launched. And together, one pulling while the other pushed, moved the ferryboat into the deadly sea. They with strength divine did cross the deadly sea in three days, Where mortals could only half as far cross in three full moon appearances. 150 160 Column IV# Urshanabi called to king in wild animal skins: “Pull your oar yet once again, Gilgamesh, Give pulls ten times twenty, and then give pulls twenty times ten And then twice more ten. When this you have done, forget the number you have done, and do it all over again. But as you pole, remember this, touch not these deadly waters with your hands.” So Gilgamesh, two-part divine, did push so hard that sixty times, then sixty times more did his pushing pole break. But from his back his wild animal skins did Gilgamesh take And hoisted [them] as a sail on central mast So the ferry still moved over the deadly sea to yonder shore. On yonder shore Utnapishtim looked towards the boat And spoke aloud as if to ask the world:
P a g e | 39 Tablet X 170 180 190 200 “There are two in that boat, one is the natural guide, The other has committed blasphemy and sacrilege. Am I blind? I cannot see who is that who stands at the helm on the ferry of the deadly sea.” Column V# When the boat did grind ashore Utnapishtim did to Gilgamesh say “Your face is gripped with grief‟s tight hand And dead seems where you‟re at. You act as if you had no home except wilderness terribly born. You wear wild animal skins and have wilderness roamed. Why has all this come to pass?” Gilgamesh to Utnapishtim did say: “I never rested. I never slept. Grief consumed me. My clothing was wild animal skins when The woman who helped me did I meet. All this because Enkidu, my friend, was dead. Enkidu who died to satisfy some divine decree from above. A decree to punish us most sore With Death. Wild Man Enkidu, Who with beasts did run, Who found the mountain passes, Who found water in dry desert sand, Who urged me on to cedar forest far, Who helped me slay demon Humbaba, Who then helped me break the Bull of Heaven. A decree which punished me with Enkidu‟s death, Which punished me by watching on his body foul worms feast, Which punished me by keeping my grief as close to me as skin, Which punished me by having me roam in wilderness, Which punished me by having me wear unshorn hair, Which punished me by having me wear wild animal skins, Which punished me by having Siduri bar me with her tavern door, Which punished me by having me roam.” Column VI# Utnapishtim replied: “You are two parts divine from virgin Ninsun, mother yours. Why does your one part mortal domineer?
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