There will be endless clash of arms in Uruk!’ He is the strongest of the steppe, strength is his, It was so decreed from the moment of birth Why have you taken this, your difficult course?’ So the shepherds might have peace at night.īut I have the strength of he who roams the steppe.īecause of me the shepherds can rest at night,īecause of me the chief catlemen can lie down. (We now return to the main version of the text) He creased his eyes together and gazed at it He examined it and was puzzled by the bread. He was in thehabit of sucking the milk of animals.’ He is small in size but extremely strong in his bony frame. ‘Look how he resembles Gilgamesh in his appearance! The shepherds/people were gathered together, She led him to the place of the sheepfold, ‘Come, Enkidu! Let us go to the place of the sheepfold (2)’. Why do you run to and fro with the beasts of the steppe?Īgain the priestess said to him, said to Enkidu: The priestess said to him, said to Enkidu: (A fragment of about 1,400 BCE published by Gernot Wilhelm gives a slightly different account of the preceding:) Theshppherds placed thier own food before him, andīread was set before him – he knows it not.īeer was set before him – he knows it not. This is a man who is like Gilgamesh in form,Īnd like the star-essence of the Sky Father An, his strength is more powerful. Of her instruction the priestess is proud, Come with me, Enkidu, to the holy dwellingĪnd they came to the hut of the shepherds
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