SUMMARY OF THE TABLETS THAT WERE WRITTEN
Tablet I
Gilgames was very knowledgeable, visited a lot, had the Uruk wall built, had the temples repaired, had them imprinted on a stone, the distress he gave the public, Enkidu being created in the dirt, compared with a temple prostitute , and the dreams Gilgames had.
Tablet II
The prostitute humanized Enkidu, civilized it, Enkidu brought to the city and met Gilgames , friendship, and the plan to go to the cedar forests and kill the dragon there.
Tablet III
The public, especially the elderly, are concerned about the dragon slaying plan. It is feared that Gilgames will die, and he tries to deter. Enkidu is suggested to protect him. She prays to the Sun God for her mother Goddess protection .
Tablet IV
Gilgames and Enkidu are making preparations to set out, begging the Sun God to help them . They hit the road. On the way, Gilgames dreams. Enkidu interprets them. On the way , Gilgames, at a time, was afraid of Enkidu, but encouraged each other to continue on their way.
they do.
Tablet V
They come to the cedar forests. When they approach the forest, the monster notices that they are coming. It puts Gilgames to sleep. But still, with the help of the Sun God, they catch the monster. Even if he begs not to kill, they do not mind, they kill. They send the trees they cut from the forest to Uruk on the Firat River .
Tablet VI
When they return to Uruk, the Goddess proposes to Istar Gilgames. When he refuses, Goddess attacks the sky bull Uruk. They kill him with Enkidu too, even throwing his right hip into the Goddess’s face. For this Goddess condemns them both. But they do not mind, they make festivals in the palace .
Tablet VII
Enkidu sees in his dream that he will be punished. He’s getting sick. He curses those who bring him from the dirt . But the Sun God calms him down, telling him he is wrong. Enkidu is dying.
Tablet VIII
This tablet is very broken. At least 175 lines cannot be read. Gilgames , where it is understood, agonizes his grief over his friend’s death. He counts and pours out the work they do together. He says everyone should mourn like everything else. He has a statue made for his friend.
Tablet IX
Gilgames is afraid that he will die after his friend’s death, and is on the road to seek immortality and find some peace. On a mountain, people come across with the appearance of scorpions. When they open the mountain door, he continues on his way in caramel and comes to a jewel garden.
Tablet X
Gilgames continues on his way and reaches the seaside. He meets the woman who runs the liquor house there . He tells him what he’s looking for. The woman suggests that she should give up on this, that no one can find immortality, that she should enjoy the days she has. On Gilgames’ insistence it shows the boatman who will take him to the man who found the first and last immortality. The boatman has Gilgames prepared the oars . Together they cross the sea, passing through the very dangerous place where the dead are taken, to the heaven of the Gods, to the place where Utanapistim, who found immortality. Gilgames is telling Utanapistim all the things he has been through and he does not want to die like his friend. He says he came to him because he wanted to be immortal. My shame is trying to explain that this will not happen, because immortality the Gods gave him, they will never do anything like that again .
Tablet XI (Best Preserved Tablet)
My Utanapist tells Gilgames how he found immortality: The gods at their meeting decide to make a deluge and destroy all their creations. The God of Wisdom informs him of the situation and tells him to build a ship and save his family and whatever is possible. My utanapist does what is said . The flood begins and lasts six days and seven nights. On the seventh day, he leaves the ship and offers a sacrifice to the Gods . Deciding on the flood, God gives immortality to Utanapistim in return for his crime. Gilgames is being tested for seven days without sleep. He can’t do that either. In order not to go back empty-handed, my Utanapist told him that if he found the youth weed underwater, he could at least be rejuvenated again. says. Gilgames finds grass, but the snake eats it too. Completely disappointed, Gilgames returns to his city with great sadness.
Tablet XII
As we noted earlier, what is written on this tablet does not belong to the Gilgamesh saga. It’s a separate Gilgames story called “Gilgames, Enkidu, and the Underworld “. Includes Sumerce and its translation into Akkadian. Say the subject: Gilgames’ tukku and mukkusu fall underground. Him how he will remove the üzülürk, says it’ll take Enkidu go. Gilgames advises him not to wear clean clothes, kiss the woman and child he loves, beat those he dislikes , and make similar rules so that they do not catch him there when he goes underground . But when Enkidu goes underground, because he does not heed these rules, he is caught there and cannot go out. Gilgames she is very upset about this, appealing to the Gods to take her out. None of it helps. Lonely Wisdom and the God of the Oceans, Ea makes Enkidu’s dream come true by making a hole underground. There, two friends embrace. Gilgames asks him what he saw underground. He says he saw bodies wrapped in dust and wolves . When asked if he saw a son, what he was doing, he tells us that he cried at the nail stuck in the wall , and the one with seven sons sat in the council of gods. The dead of those who have nobody in the world or who did not sacrifice to them crawl on the ground and eat the leftovers.
The tablet ends like the beginning.
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