Gilgamesh leaves, in search of eternal life. He goes through trials, deserts, thresholds. He faces stone-men, scorpion-men, smugglers, wild beasts of all kinds. He interacts with the savagery, the brutality, the violence with nothing to hold it.
He goes until crossing the river which encircles the world, and arrives on the boundary of humanity.
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(The Epic of Gilgamesh)
