Gilgamesh Quest Immortality

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Terrified now of his own death, Gilgamesh sets out to find Utnapishtim, the one man made deathless. He passes the twin-peaked mountain Mashu, guarded by the Scorpion-men, and travels the long dark tunnel of the sun's own road, emerging into a garden of jeweled trees and the counsel of Siduri the alewife, who bids him love this life — yet he goes on. — Epic of Gilgamesh