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he is sad that his friend has died. He wanders off to the desert. he was all alone. he went insane. he desided that he had to find the secret of eternal life and bring it back to his friend. He sets out to talk to Utnapishim the one who servived the flood.
He goes to the Mashu mountains. the scorpion people can kill you just by looking at you but because he is part god they let him go through.
He then makes it to the road of the sun where he wandered through the dark repeating Enkidus name. He evenutaly comes upon a valley. In the valley lives a barmaid named Siduri and she sees him and lets him in. he tells her what the two of them have been through and how he has died and he is out to find the secret of imortality to bring him back to life. She tells him that he needs to talk to the boatman Urshanabi and he will tell Gilgamesh how to get to Utnapishim.
he finds some stones and smashes them into a thousand pieces. Urshanabi tells him that those were that sacred stones. He explanes to Urshanabi why he needs to get to Utnapishim.
he tells Gilgamesh that he needs to get a boatload of long treess and he will use them to push himself across the sea of death.
He is not to let his hands touch the water just keep using different poles when one gets rotted by the sea of death.
Utnapishtim is at the other side of the sea and Gilgamesh is sleeping when he shows up. utnapishtimis wondering who he is what his proplem is and what happened to the sacred stones.
Gilgamesh tells him about Enkidus.
Utnapishtim sees to things of hope in Gilgamesh. one is that he went that far for a friend and the other is that he knows that you must borrow light from the blind.
He tells gilgamesh that love is the only way to enternal life. you will have it forever.
In Shurrupak all the gods; anu, enlil, and ishtar made a plan of a great flood.
Ea is scared of the winds and goes to Utnapishtim and tells him to tear down his house and build a boat and bring with him the seed of all the living cratures. He got the boat all ready and the rains came. the rain came for seven whole days. he saw all the people die and only wanted to help their loved ones and bring them back.
he falls asleep when they go back to Utnapishtims house and his wife bakes bread for everyday that he sleeps. when he wakes he learns that he has slept for 7 days.
he yells across the sea to the boatman to let him get home untired and be young again.
they burn his things because they just remind himl of his dead friend.
There is a plant in the river that will bring Gelgamesh new life.
He makes it back to the other side and rest in the pool, but when he gets out he sees that his plant is gone so he starts to cry.