The plant and the serpent

So one day I woke up and I surrounded by a bunch of loaves of bread some of them looked good and some looked gross. “Count these loaves and learn how many days you slept, for your first is hard, your second like leather, your third is soggy, the crust of your fourth has mould, your fifth is mildewed, your sixth is fresh and your seventh was still over the glowing embers when I touched and woke you.” At this point I was back at Uruk and when I completed my journey Utnapishtim told me a secret. He said “Gilgamesh, I shall reveal a secret thing, it is a mystery of the gods that I am telling you. There is a plant that grows under the water, it has a prickle like a them, like a rose; it will wound your hands, but if you succeed in taking it, then your hands will hold that which restores his lost youth to a man." So I got the plant I planned on bringing it back to Uruk until it was stolen. “there was lying a serpent, and the serpent sensed the sweetness of the flower. It rose out of the water and snatched it away, and immediately it sloughed its skin and returned to the well. Then Gilgamesh sat down and wept, the tears ran down his face”.