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Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld
Enkidu descends into the underworld and cannot return; Gilgamesh hears, through the open earth, what awaits the dead.
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- Tradition
- Sumerian Gilgamesh poem. Tablet XII of the standard Babylonian epic preserves a partial Akkadian translation of its second half.
- Translation
- ETCSL — J.A. Black, G. Cunningham, E. Robson, G. Zólyomi et al. (2003). Used by permission for educational and non-commercial purposes.
- License
- ETCSL translation. Reproduced for educational and religious commentary under ETCSL's non-commercial educational use clause.