 Ancient Dwarven Book V |
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in enkidus dream the gods decide that one of the heroes must die because they killed humbaba and gugalanna despite the protestations of shamash enkidu is marked for death enkidu curses the great door he has fashioned for enlils temple he also curses the trapper and shamhat for removing him from the wild shamash reminds enkidu of how shamhat fed and clothed him and introduced him to gilgamesh shamash tells him that gilgamesh will bestow great honors upon him at his funeral and will wander into the wild consumed with grief enkidu regrets his curses and blesses shamhat instead in a second dream however he sees himself being taken captive to the netherworld by a terrifying angel of death the underworld is a house of dust and darkness whose inhabitants eat clay and are clothed in bird feathers supervised by terrifying beings for twelve days enkidus condition worsens finally after a lament that he could not meet a heroic death in battle he dies in a famous line from the epic gilgamesh clings to enkidus body and denies that he has died until a maggot drops from the corpses nose
Notes
- As an Easter egg, the text is actually an English summary of the Epic of Gilgamesh.