What you come to appreciate is close that Gilgamesh and Enkidu have become. They support each other in battle and they work as a team. “And Enkidu wrestled and Enkidu cried out to Gilgamesh: The life of man is short, let us contend with the bull of heaven and win and Gilgamesh fought and fighting the bull they cried: two people, companions, they can prevail together.” Pg 34 I think it’s really hard to know that your brother because that’s what they have become will die, seeing him suffer in the process of dying, and know that when their gone you will never see them again. “Why am I left to live while my brother dies? Why should he die and I be spared to live? Enkidu said: Must I now go to sit among the dead, in the company of the dead without my brother? Gilgamesh said: Must I now sit outside the door of the house of the dead while Enkidu sits in the house of the dead among the shadow companions?” Pg 38 What I really don’t get is why they choose Enkidu? Just because he’s the side kick?
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