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Book Information Ancient Dwarven Book VII
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Ancient Dwarven Book VII

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the epic of gilgamesh vii

gilgamesh roaming the wild wearing animal skins grieving for enkidu having now become fearful of his own death he decides to seek utnapishtim the faraway and learn the secret of eternal life among the few survivors of the great flood utnapishtim and his wife are the only humans to have been granted immortality by the gods gilgamesh crosses a mountain pass at night and encounters a pride of lions before sleeping he prays for protection to the moon god sin then waking from an encouraging dream he kills the lions and uses their skins for clothing after a long and perilous journey gilgamesh arrives at the twin peaks of mount mashu at the end of the earth he comes across a tunnel which no man has ever entered guarded by two scorpion monsters who appear to be a married couple the husband tries to dissuade gilgamesh from passing but the wife intervenes expresses sympathy for gilgamesh and according to the poems editor benjamin foster allows his passage he passes under the mountains along the road of the sun in complete darkness he follows the road for twelve double hours managing to complete the trip before the sun catches up with him he arrives at the garden of the gods a paradise full of jewel laden trees

Notes

• As an Easter egg, the text is actually an English summary of the Epic of Gilgamesh.