The Mirror: Gilgamesh

Injust, sulky, filthy, dark, horrible, appalling; all words that describe The Nether World (HELL/ Spiritual world under our current world full of life). The Nether world is connected to modern day humans and how they live their life. The clean clothes, the fragrance, the shoes, EVERYTHING about him was different from the others, the dead. The connection is not very clear at first, but we are sort of dead (live in the nether world). In this world there is status by amount of offspring or ceremonies after death, there is attraction to smell, there is rejection to clothes; this is all related to us. We reject differences, we are appealled to smells and common public things , our status is divided because of money (sons/offspring) and religion and religious beliefs (pope/catholic church). Any other way would be th wrong way. If there is no spiritual connection whatsoever, you are lower than dirt. Religion is now the base of society. This is Gilgamesh's way of mirroring us.

The drum and drumstick. Metaphors. Parts of a person, in this case
Gilgamesh. I think thwey could be self-confidence and control over your own life. When these two very important parts of one fall into the Nether World, Gilgamesh can't stop thinking of how to get them back and who will do this tedious task for him. These to characteristics of his were held by Enkidu, his companion, so in the moment of his death he was awfully vulnerable. Looking for something thet he couldn't find. The fear death completely overcame this great, powerful king once he realized thay death had sympathy for no one. That no matter how powerful, how good, how brave you are you will die. That even his great companion Enkidu died that he could just as easily die. He no longer had control over his life, no self-confidence. As humans also have this fear though we disguise this as a crisis. We lose control over our lives and have no self-confidence though we might appear thet we do.

Overall, Gilgamesh seemed boring to me but I'm pretty sure it was because I didn't dey all of its symbolism. Its one big metaphor. I still can't quite make the complete connection between nature and Gilgamesh. Though I think Gilgamesh is a metaphore for man and Enkidu was his alter ego.