Gilgamesh encounters Shamash by the edge of the sea |
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| No mortal man has gone this way before, nor will as long as the winds drive over the sea. | |
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| You will never find the life for which you are searching | |
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Gilgamesh continues his journey and encounters the Goddess Siduri |
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| If you are that Gilgamesh that seized and killed the bull of heaven, the watchman of the cedar forest, and overthrew the humbaba that lived in the forest why do you come here in search of the wind? | |
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| I am afraid of death and am in search of immortality. | |
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Gilgamesh meets Utnapishtim for the first time... |
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| What is your name, you who come wearing the skins of beasts, with your cheeks starved and face drawn? | |
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| Gilgamesh is my name. I am from Uruk, from the house of Anu. | |
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