Behind the words

In the first three tablets of the text, we meet Gilgamesh as the mighty ox and king of Uruk. He is the indisputable ruler of the reign and feared by the people, who have no other choice but to submit to his desire. But then the gods hear their plea and created another powerful being. “I saw a hairy-bodied man at the water place, powerful as Ninurta the god of war, he feeds upon the grasslands with gazelles; he visits the watering places with the beasts.”(p.6). This hairy man then asks to be taken to Gilgamesh, to challenge him and his power. But when they fight they end up as friends, even brothers. Enkidu is presented as the new companion and helper of the ox. He tells him about yet another powerful being in this world, Huwawa. This restless ox decides to go challenge Huwawa with his new companion at his side. They receive the blessings of the city and the warnings of the old, but ignore the suggestions to stay back. New weapons are crafted for them and they depart towards their new challenge.
In these tablets we read about characters that may have some greater meanings and connections to real life. Gilgamesh is the ruler of all, and it says he is old and there to presence many things before men. This can be a characteristic of sort of a creation myth. Maybe Gilgamesh is an attempt to explain a creation story by our ancestors who had no scientific way to prove any past events. “of him who knew most of all men know; who made the journey; heartbroken; reconciled; who knew the way things where before the flood, the secret things, the mystery; who went to the end of the earth and over; who returned, and wrote the story in a tablet of stone” (p.3). This shows Gilgamesh is a character represented as the one who knows all and that was there to presence everything, and therefore has the knowledge that our civilization has always aimed for. I look forward to advancing in the reading, so that I can try to grasp the meaning of many important things hidden behind the words. Will they beat Huwawa? Or will their greed and desire for being the only powerful ones take them to death, as our world is coming to a catastrophe due to our self-centered minds?