Gilgamesh proves his identity and asks Siduri how to find Utnapishtim. Like the giant scorpions, she tells him that his journey is futile and fraught with dangers. However, she directs him to Urshanabi, the ferryman, who works for Utnapishtim. Gilgamesh approaches Urshanabi with great arrogance and violence and in the process destroys the "stone things" that are somehow critical for the journey to Utnapishtim.
When Gilgamesh demands to be taken to Utnapishtim, the ferryman tells him that it is now impossible, since the "stone things" have been destroyed. Nevertheless, he advises Gilgamesh to cut several trees down to serve as punting poles; the waters they are to cross are the Waters of Death, should any mortal touch the waters, that man will instantly die. With the punting poles, Gilgamesh can push the boat and never touch the dangerous waters. He listened to the dream in which Ea told him to build a great ship before the flood, and spent a great deal of time and effort to protect his family.
Though now immortal, he lives a straightforward life relaxing far from civilization. The big moral lesson that Gilgamesh learns in The Epic of Gilgamesh is to be a kinder, better, wiser king. Instead of running off to fight monsters and seek immortality, the Epic is saying that the key to living the most meaningful life you can is to be the best The Epic of Gilgamesh has several moral themes, but the main theme is that love is a motivating force.
Other moral themes in this epic are the inevitability of death and the danger of dealing with the gods. Another great lesson Gilgamesh learns is the inescapable truth of human death.
When they arrive at the Waters of Death, the boatman tells Gilgamesh to use the punting poles but to be sure his hands don't touch the water. Gilgamesh poles the boat through the Waters of Death.
His great strength causes him to break all one hundred and twenty poles. Why is utnapishtim granted immortality? Asked by: Clifton Ryan MD. Does Gilgamesh gain immortality in the end? Is Utnapishtim happy? Is Gilgamesh mortal or immortal? What was so special about Utnapishtim? Did Utnapishtim become immortal? What does the bread symbolize in Gilgamesh? Does Gilgamesh receive everlasting life? What secret does Utnapishtim tell Gilgamesh? How did Utnapishtim survive the Great Flood?
Why did Gilgamesh not become immortal? How does Gilgamesh change in the end? The most obvious answer is that he was really lucky. Way back in the day, Utanapishtim was the king of a city called Shuruppak. While Utanapishtim was king of this city, the gods happened to decide that the world should be wiped out with a flood.
Fortunately for Utanapishtim, he had friends in high places. Well, one friend really, but he was in the highest of places: the god Ea. Ea sneakily gave Utanapishtim advanced warning about the Flood, and also passed along instructions on how to build a massive boat. Utanapishtim did as he was told give him credit for that. When the boat was done, he brought his wife on board, as well as some craftsman, and examples of all the species of animals. So how did this lead to him getting immortality?
The text doesn't come right out and tell us, but we do know this: when the Flood was over, and the god Enlil saw that some humans had survived, he was thoroughly annoyed that his perfect record of humanity-destroying had been ruined. It seems that this was all the motivation he needed to monkey with the statistics and give Utanapishtim and his wife immortality, therefore making them something other than human, therefore returning him to his perfect humanity-destroyer rating.
This doesn't explain though, what happened to the other people who were on the boat. They're never mentioned again. Yep, we thought so too. That said, we really don't know if this was a good deal or not. All Utanapishtim seems to do now is hang out in some remote region in the underworld, beyond the rising and setting of the sun, with only his wife for company.
What does he do there all day? Maybe he has a really sweet home entertainment system or something. But we're not even sure about that—because, once Gilgamesh shows up, Utanapishtim shows all the signs of being a grumpy old man make that really, really, really old man with too much time on his hands like, all of eternity.
You can see this in his snarky comments to Gilgamesh, whom he basically tells, right off the bat that his quest is pointless.
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