What is that? Is that our great king and hero lying there on the sand so weak and helpless? Oh, poor Gilgamesh. He lost his friend and lover. He hears a bird. He looks; it is his lover with her body as a bird. "Look. See the mountain? The Sun God is going to his lair."
Gilgamesh followed the sun. On the way, he made friends with a lion cub. He came to a house. A woman opens the door and asks, " Do you want some wine?"
"No, I want to cross the river." He struggles but he does make it across. A figure stands before him in awe. Gilgamesh says, "Are you Utnapishtim."
"Yes."
"What is the secret to immortality?"
"Only gods can be immortal."
"But you were once the same as me. How did you become immortal?"
"Don't know really. I did a favor for the Gods. Alright, but you'd have to stay awake for six days and seven nights."
After awhile, Gilgamesh falls asleep.
"You failed, but there is still hope. That plant keeps you young."
Gilgamesh gets the plant. "Hope is back," he says and fall asleep on a nearby island.
Ishtar, a wicked woman, ate the flower. She cackles. Gilgamesh wakes up.
"Ishtar, you evil one," he screams.
Then his dead friend, Enkido, comes to him as a griffin. Gilgamesh see's his city. He see's the immortality he sought, his great city.
