Tablet V - The Epic Of Gilgamesh

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'A slippery path is not feared by two people who help eachother.'
--The Epic Of Gilgamesh, Tablet V

http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab5.htm

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Translated in 1998, fragments remain.

The story about Gilgamesh King of Uruk and his friend Enkidu.

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TABLET I

"He who has seen everything, I will make known (?) to the lands.
I will teach (?) about him who experienced all things,
... alike,
Anu granted him the totality of knowledge of all.
He saw the Secret, discovered the Hidden,
he brought information of (the time) before the Flood."

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