I was thinking about what would happen next in the story when I decided to go ahead and take a look for myself. The constant nagging on the corner of my brain would not stop. When I did get to reading it, it started at the point where the two of them, Enkidu and Gilgamesh, both began their journey to fight and kill the demon to the hateful god.
When Gilgamesh started to have the dreams they made me wonder, why him? Why didn't Enkidu get strange dreams just like Gilgamesh? I thought about this and figured it must be because of Gilgamesh's status in life and the way he was more civilized than Enkidu. Even though Enkidu understands the dreams and would probably be more fit to have them himself, Gilgamesh is the King and therefore has more power.
One thing that interested me while reading this was how the great voice bellowed from the sky saying "Seven terrors are the garments of Huwawa. The aura of Huwawa is the terrors. Helpless is he who who enters the Cedar Forest when the demon wears the seven. Hurry, Huwawa has not put on the seven. He wears but one." This got me thinking and I came up with many solutions to what he is saying. First, I came up with the idea of maybe he just woke up from perhaps sleep and wasn't fully awake yet to become all seven terrors or traits of which make him scary. Another idea was that he wasn't in a big enough outrage to hold all seven of his scary traits. Lastly, I thought of these lines talking about what he actually wore. Perhaps he had a seven piece armor suit and only had on one piece of it. Many possibilities and meanings can be interpreted about what these lines really mean.
It was an interesting scene in the story, them going on the quest, but I had expected it to be a much longer journey. Instead their journey felt shortly described. I honestly hope the upcoming scenes in the book will be a little more exciting as of the part I just read did not.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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