With a mighty roar Gilgamesh and Enkidu rush at each other. Your bodies collide together like two blazing comets crashing from the heavens. Together you break all of the doorposts and the walls of mighty Uruk shake until the very sky begins to tremble. You both snort like two wild bulls locked together, neither willing to give way to the other. Eyeball to eyeball, cheek to jowl, bicep to bicep, you wrestle and grapple. Thunderous blows are exchanged, until Gilgamesh bends his knee with his foot planted on the ground and with a turn Enkidu is thrown. Immediately Gilgamesh's fury dies. Enkidu exclaims, "Blast, you got me!" So Enkidu and Gilgamesh embrace and your friendship is sealed.
(NB - lasses, I know the above makes no sense, don't worry, it's a 'guy' kind of thing.)
The two friends lord it over Uruk for a while, until one day Enkidu says that he is bored. Enlil, the father of the gods, sends Gilgamesh a dream. Gilgamesh is to go to the Cedar Forest and bring back logs for the city. Enkidu sighs bitterly and warns him that the forest is guarded by a ferocious god called Humbaba. "When I ran with the wild beasts ranging through the wilderness I discovered the forest. Terrible to all flesh is Humbaba. When he roars it is like the torrent of the storm, his breath is like fire, and his jaws are death itself. He guards the cedars so well that when a wild heifer stirs in the forest, though she is sixty leagues distant, he hears her. I tell you, weakness overpowers all who approach Humbaba."
Gilgamesh haughtily replies, "Where is the man who can clamber to heaven? Only the gods can live forever. How is this you are already afraid? I will say that there is nothing to fear, then if I fall I leave behind a name that endures; men will say of me,'Gilgamesh has fallen in a fight with ferocious Humbaba.' Long after the child has been born in my house, they will say it, and remember."
Enkidu sighs again, "I have a very bad feeling about this one, brother. If we go to the Cedar Forest, one of us will die."
The two friends look at each other in silence. You wonder what to do. Should you stay or should you go?