And understanding arrived, and wisdom came in him. For six days and seven nights did Enkidu stay uplifted by her charms. Enkidu saw her, saying "Spread out your robe so that we might lie together" and his lust groaned over her. Then Enkidu, who eats grasses with the gazelles, came to drink with the beasts and Shamhat released her robe. They travelled three days to the place, and the trapper and the harlot sat down. He made the journey, "Go, trapper, bring the harlot, Shamhat", said Gilgamesh, "and when the animals drink at the watering-hole have her put off her robe."
He will give you the harlot Shamhat, she can overcome the strong." Enkidu ate grass with the gazelles, and jostled at the watering-hole with the animals.Ī noble trapper came to the watering-hole and saw the strange man from the mountains, mighty as a meteorite that falls from the gods! The trapper's father spoke: "In Uruk lives Gilgamesh, strongest of the strong, mightier yet than the meteorite of Anu. And made Enkidu, the wild man, he of the shaggy hair. Gilgamesh the herdsman of his people! Gilgamesh leaves not the bride to her lover, Gilgamesh leaves not the girl to her mother, Gilgamesh takes the daughter even from the warrior!Īnd the people feared, and they prayed to Anu-the-Protector-of-the-Sky, and Anu told Aruru-the-Creator "You created mankind! Create a match for Gilgamesh, that Uruk may find peace!" And Aruru cleaned her hands, and threw clay into the silent wilderness. Mighty as a bull, no man dare raise weapon against him. Gilgamesh the mighty, son of the noble cow, Rimat-Ninsun. Find the copper tablet box, loose its lock of bronze, take the tablet of lapis lazuli, and read. See the walls of true-fired brick- did not the Seven Sages lay out its plan? One league for a city, one league for gardens, one league for courts of stone. He returned to us from afar, and carved on stone the tale of his toils. He saw the Secrets, discovered the Hidden, and brought knowledge of time before the Flood. Of the One who has done all things, I will tell. Of He who has seen all things, I will make known. This abridgement is based on the 1855 translation by George Smith of the clay tablets discovered in the library of Nineveh. Several versions of this story have been discovered. The real King Gilgamesh lived about 2,600BCE and was a leader of one of the first great human civilisations, at one of the first cities Uruk, the ancient city of Babylonia, from which the modern name Iraq derives. Here is the oldest written story still known. The original, squashed down to read in about 30 minutes Squashed and Nicely Abridged Books - Gilgamesh
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