The Beginning of the Truth

As I began to read Tablet I, I realized that Gilgamesh is a very important, powerful character. He was created by the goddess, Auru, and he's the ruler of the city of Uruk. People considered him divine: "Two thirds a God, one third a man, the king." -pg.4. Besides people thinking of him this way, he also considers himself great. I kept reading Tablet I, and I saw something that I thought was important. I read about another character named Enkidu. Enkidu was created also by Auru because one day she heard a man say: "You made this man. Now create another."-pg.5. Then Auru made Enkidu, "The hairy-bodied wild man of the grasslands, powerful as Ninurta, the god of war. "-pg. 5.
Due to the fact that Enkidu was very powerful, one day when a hunter saw him, became speechless and told his father about him. His father told him to "Go to Uruk and there present yourself to Gilgamesh, the king, who is the strongest of all, the perfect the terror."-pg. 6. The father said to him, to tell Gilgamesh to send a harlot (a temple prostitute) with him in order to show Enkidu great pleasures. The son went to Uruk, and Gilgamesh send a harlot named Shamhat with him. She and the son went to the grasslands and found Enkidu, were Shamhat showed him great pleasures, and convinced him to go to Uruk with her.
While they were going back to Uruk, Gilgamesh had a strange dream: "A star fell from the heavens, a meteorite, and lay on the empty plain outside Uruk. The men and women came and wondered a it. I strove with it to lift it but could not. I was drawn to it as if it was a woman."-pg. 10. He told this dream to his mother, Rimat-Ninsun. She answered him back with ther interpretation of the dream, she said that the meteorite he couln't lift was "The strong companion, powerful as a star, the meteorite of the heavens, a gift from the gods. That you were drawn to it as if drawn to a woman means that this companion will not forsake you. He will protect and guard you with his life. This is the fortunate meaning of your dream."-pg. 10. This interpretation the mother made, got me thinking that the meteorite simbolizes Enkidu, because he was made strong as him, and he was going to protect and help Gilgamesh.
On their way to Uruk, Enkidu and Shamhat stopped at a camp were people thought of him as strong as Gilgamesh, there he began to act more like a human, he ate human food and drank wine. One day, a man came and told them about a wedding in Uruk, and Enkidu decided to go there to challenge Gilgamesh. Finally when Enkidu arrived to Uruk, he and Gilgamesh wrestled. But at the end they became friends, they hugged and kissed. What Rimat-Ninsun had told Gilgamesh was true, Enkidu wasn't here to forsake him, but to help him. Gilgamesh and Enkidu decided to go and defeat the demon Huwawa. "Huwawa's mouth is fire; his roar the floodwater; his breath is death."-pg. 16. At the end of this Tablet, Gilgamesh discovered that there was another person like him who could help him without takink him off his thrown.