Friday, October 2, 2015

Killing Humbaba

So today me and my new friend Enkidu got really bored so we got some really cool stuff to kill this guy Humbaba.“They went into the groves of the plain and cut willow and box-wood; they cast for them axes of nine score pounds, and great swords they cast with blades of six score pounds each one, with pommels and hilts of thirty pounds. ” We also walked way too much over the past couple of days.“After twenty leagues they broke their fast; after another thirty leagues they stopped for the night. Fifty leagues they walked in one day; in three days they had walked as much as a journey of a month and two weeks. They crossed seven mountains before they came to the gate of the forest.”“Gilgamesh, and I will be your servant, you shall be my lord; all the trees of the forest that I tended on the mountain shall be yours. I will cut them down and build you a palace.' He took him by the hand and led him to his house, so that the heart of Gilgamesh was moved with compassion”. Humbaba was gonna be my servant if I let him live but Enkidu ruined that by killing him.

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