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P a g e | 40 Tablet X 210 What surprise is it when building finally falls? What surprise is it when friends finally fight? What surprise is it when rivers swell and flood? What surprise is it when insects die? What surprise is it when sun gazing eye does blind? When the heaven came down, when the heaven did rise, from then nothing stays the same. Sleep is but practice for the lying still of the dead. Rich clothes on peasant do still fit, And both farmer and king will rot when their time is gone. The Anunnaki have decided together that first there is life, and then comes death to everything. Aruru has decreed that no one shall know when comes their time to sleep for ever more.
P a g e | 41 Tablet XI Tablet XI: The Flood , Trial of Sleeplessness, Foiled by the Serpent, Triumphant Return From the Dead Summary: Gilgamesh hears the story of the Great Flood and fails some tests put to him by the Lord of the Underworld. A snake also ruins his chance at immortality. He ends up back in his city with only the story of his adventures to comfort him. Characters: Gilgamesh, Utnapishtim, Utnapishtim‟s wife, the gods Ea, Ninurta, and Enlil, the ferryman Urshanabi Column I To Utnapishtim, Gilgamesh said: “When I first you saw I thought to fight you as did I Humbaba, demon of cedar forest far. But now I see your face as if I saw my own in mirror surface. It is from once mortal man that I came to find how death be avoided. So tell me how came about wearing divinity like a skin?” 10 20 30 Utnapishtim said to him in swift reply: “King of Uruk surely there is no one more bold. Here is knowledge that no other has ever been told. Near where Euphrates born sits a city you call Shuruppak, home of those divine. Enlil sent from there a flood to stop noisy human babbling all the time. Aruru, Anu, and Enlil were at Shuruppak. But it was Ea who did speak in whispers through my roofly straw to tell me to attend to what he says, Ea the ever vigilant did to me speak, Saying build a boat and abandon what I have, for your riches cannot save your life. Saying catch a creating match of every living thing which in your boat do put. Saying make water tight your boat, protect it from the flood which comes. Saying make the boat wide and equally long, then tile the roof with slate. Saying listen and attend to what I say. Saying tell your neighbours that you cannot stay for Enlil hates you as he does Saying tell your neighbours that you must find another place to place your head to rest Saying tell your neighbours that Ea of the watery Abyss will protect you now, this you know. Saying to me to attend, to listen to his words. Saying to tell my neighbours that Shuruppak will reap only water and be no more. Saying to tell my neighbours that first Shuruppak will receive rain like loaves, and fish most great
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