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54C-Gilgamesh: Dust

Myths and Legends

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The Quest for Everlasting Life

Gilgamesh returned to Uruk, the people were glad to have their king back and didn't really seem to care that he was going to die someday. We don't know if Gilgamesh found peace, but to me it seems like he accepted death for the first time since Lane and Kidu'd arrest,. He resumed being a king to his people, got married, and had a family. One day, Gilgamesh saw the tablets that someone had carved, and tears began to wall up in his eyes. It was his name, carved in stone, just as his old friend Inkidu had said, just weeks after they first met. I like to imagine that he

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