ANCIENT TEXTS: Epic of Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh, Enkidu & the underworld

I want to start by disassembling a short, interesting song "Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the underworld", the conditional name of a Sumerian song created before the XXVIII century BC.

A myth where Gilgamesh and Enkidu are the main characters.

Enkidu (Sumerian: 𒂗𒆠𒄭 EN.KI.DU10) was a legendary figure in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, wartime comrade and friend of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Their exploits were composed in Sumerian poems and in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, written during the 2nd millennium BC. He is the oldest literary representation of the wild man, a recurrent motif in artistic representations in Mesopotamia and in Ancient Near East literature. The apparition of Enkidu as a primitive man seems to be a potential parallel of the Old Babylonian version (1300–1000 BC), in which he was depicted as a servant-warrior in the Sumerian poems.

At the center of the story is the "tree of knowledge".

The main content of the myth:

after the creation of the world, after the world was divided into:

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A tree has grown on the riverbank. Inanna takes this tree to her garden. She takes care of him, waits for the hour to make a throne out of him, but there are obstacles in the way of this idea. A malicious Anzu bird settles in the crown of the tree, an evil ghost girl settles in the middle of the tree in the hollow, and a snake settles in the roots, and they do not allow Inanna to make a throne out of the tree. Inanna complains to the initiator god Utu about this problem.

Shamash (Akkadian: šamaš[a]), also known as Utu (Sumerian: dutu 𒀭𒌓 "Sun") was the ancient Mesopotamian sun god.

Utu doesn't help. Gilgamesh undertakes to help; he drives away all the pests. Inanna makes a throne out of wood, and Gilgamesh takes the roots and branches for himself. Gilgamesh makes magical musical instruments for himself from roots and branches. with the help of them, he makes the whole city dance to exhaustion. Utu makes magic tools fall into the world of the dead. Gilgamesh sobs, says he hasn't played enough yet. Enkidu is called to return them. But instead of returning, he gets stuck there himself. It's hard to get him out. Enkidu tells Gilgamesh what happens to people after death.

The esoteric meaning of the myth is as follows. After the creation of the world, Inanna takes the grown tree to her garden and diligently takes care of it. This means that by diligently accumulating knowledge, a person follows the Path.

In the end, Inanna is going to make a throne out of Wood for herself - the well-known idiom:

is easily recognized here.

But not everything is so simple, because obstacles appear:

at the top, in the middle and at the bottom - it is easy to recognize a hint of obstacles associated with three worlds:

Inanna asks Utu for help, he does not help, since all the practices have already been given, you should not give up but diligently perform them. In addition, the gods cannot solve the internal problems of each person, it must be done by the person himself, which is symbolically expressed in the fact that Gilgamesh solves the problems, no longer a man, but also not a god.

Having solved the problems, Gilgamesh decides to practice the magical arts, which are a "by-product", just as the amazing abilities of tantrists and yogis are not the goal of practice, but a side result. Gilgamesh loses his sense of proportion, and Utu pulls him back. This is where the esoteric part of the myth ends, the remaining part, where Enkidu descends into the world of the dead for magical tools, is an artistic device to explain what will happen to a person after death. The explanation boils down to the fact that, again expressed in terms of tantra, depending on which chakra kundalini has awakened to, a person will receive such a "reward" after death.

In total, the esoteric meaning of this myth:

1. Practice will eventually lead to the acquisition of a "throne like the gods".

2. In the course of practice, problems will arise related to the mental, creative and astral world.

3. Diligent practice will lead to the resolution of all problems.

4. In the course of practice, magical abilities will be acquired, which should not be particularly flirted with.

5. After death, everyone will receive their own "reward" depending on their development in the esoteric sense.

ANCIENT TEXTS: Gilgamesh, Enkidu & the underworld

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ANCIENT TEXTS: Gilgamesh, Enkidu & the underworld – Library of Rickandria