Tablet XI
In this tablet Gilgamesh finally arrives to Utnapishtim. Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh the story of the flood and the reward the gods gave him and his wife of immortality. Utnapishtim explains what happen in those days in the boat in which he freed birds to see if life could "work" after the flood. Then Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh he has to do a test in which he will show the gods his worth, he will rest for a week. After not accomplished the test, Gilgamesh begins the journey back to Uruk. Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh a bout a secret of the gods, a secret plant that will help Gilgamesh. In his journey back to Uruk a serpent takes away the plant, so after all the hard work of Gilgamesh and the great journeys were for nothing. When he arrives to Uruk he asks Urshanabi to measure Uruk the city of Gilgamesh.
The end of tablet XI keeps me thinking what will happen to Gilgamesh and to his hard work to accomplish immortality. Will everything will just stay the same? or will the gods will ever reward him?
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