Gilgamesh recognizes his own fate in his friend's death, and this awareness spurs him on to the ends of the earth to find Utnapishtim: "Despair is in my heart. What my brother is now, that shall I be when I am dead. Because I am afraid of death I will go as best I can to find Utnapishtim whom they call the faraway, for he has entered the assembly of the gods" a. 97).
During Gilgamesh's search for Utnapishtim, the hero changes both emotionally and physically in ways that contrast his earlier elevated status. First, the great hero who defeated Humbaba and.....
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