Anonymous ID: 81f04a Nov. 27, 2020, 5:44 a.m. No.11806461   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>6480 >>6614 >>6671 >>6823 >>6911 >>6927

>>11806367

>OPINE SOMETHING ALREADY

there are many versions of the epic of Gilgamesh from over the millennia, but each version ends the same. gilgamesh goes on an epic journey with his equal yet opposite self in search of glory and everlasting life, only to return home empty handed to a relatively irrelevant existence. disappointed and hollow.

his own ancestor Utnapishtim (He Who Saw Life) was given immortality by the gods because they didnt know what to do with him after he survived the great deluge by building an ark, as tasked by the gods themselves. gilgamesh made the impossible journey to ask him for this gift but he told gilgamesh that he shouldnt be seeking such foolish things with the time he's been given, and gives him this advice:

Gilgamesh, let you belly be full

Enjoy yourself day and night

Every day make merry, dance and play

Let your clothes be clean

Let your head be washed

Bathe yourself in water

Gaze upon the little child that holds your hand

Let a wife enjoy your repeated embrace

For this is the lot of men

gilgamesh would never learn this lesson, and instead would live with his failure to become what he wanted to be, rather than the success of becoming what he was meant to be.

 

there are many allegories in this epic that are relevant to today, and are even the inspiration for many modern day "religions". its the classic anti hero tale that is retold by modern "poets" to no end, and yet still, nobody understands it.

we are not here for a special purpose, other than to live and grow in the light, to not seek a materialistic/egotistic existence. so that the ones who come after us may learn from our example, and teach it to those who come after them.

 

i hope you find my opining satisfactory anon.