Prejudice Among the Gods

In several occasions I have seen how Gilgamesh is valued deeply by the gods, but he doesn’t do as well. He is always challenging, and for being a king, the hero, he is rated greatly. Enkidu is underestimated, although he has the same qualities as his brother. In Enkidu’s dream, “Then Enlil that Enkidu must die but Gilgamesh, the gifted, must not die.”(pg.37), self-explains this point. Apparently, in unaccountable times the dreams the characters’’ have become true, either in a mythical way or in a real way.

The gods are naïve of how Gilgamesh treats them, and the way they honor him. When he acts badly he gets a bearable but fearful punishment. When these accumulate, it is his companion who gets the load, only for being there to motivate and strengthen. The gods and population only see a mighty ruler when mentioning Ishmael, but when talking about Enkidu he is just primitive.

Here is where the united man separates, in Endiku’s death, so I imagine that further in the reading Gilgamesh will be incomplete, different, not the same.