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Well really, that's a bit mean, isn't it?
Together you chop up poor old Humbaba, who never did you any harm. There then follows confusion for this is the guardian of the Cedar forest that you have felled to the ground. For as far as two leagues around the cedars shiver when Enkidu delivers the fatal blow. The mountains are moved and all the hills. You cut down all the cedars and the seven
splendors of Humbaba. You set Humbaba before the gods, before Enlil. You kiss the ground and drop the shroud and set the head before them. When he sees the head of Humbaba, Enlil is
enraged, "Why did you do this thing? From henceforth may the fire be in your faces, may it eat the bread that you eat, may it drink where you drink." He is pretty sore at you alright.
You scarper back to Uruk. Gilgamesh washes out his lovely long locks and flings back the hair from his shoulders. You throw off your stained clothes and put on lovely robes.
Gilgamesh is dressed in flowing royal purple, wears his crown and looks every inch the King. Glorious Ishtar, the goddess of love, lifts her eyes and gazes upon Gilgamesh's beauty. She
says, "Come to me Gilgamesh, and be my bridegroom; grant me seed of your body, let me be your bride and you shall be my husband. I will harness for you a chariot of lapis lazuli and of gold, with wheels of gold and horns of copper; and you shall have mighty demons of the storm for draft-mules. When you enter our house in the fragrance of cedar-wood, threshold and throne I will kiss your feet. Kings, rulers, and princes will bow down before you; they shall bring you tribute from the mountains and the plain. Your ewes shall drop twins and your goats triplets; your pack-ass shall outrun mules; your oxen shall have no rivals, and your chariot horses shall be famous far-off for their swiftness."
Ishtar smiles invitingly at Gilgamesh and Enkidu...
Phew! What an offer! That Ishtar is the goddess of love, and a real honey. But you hesitate, performance anxiety? Are you up to it? Just look at what she offers, and besides she will get cross if she is refused. Gosh, she certainly is gorgeous looking!
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