To Mourn like a Woman

"It is Enkidu, the companion, whom I weep for, weeping for him as if I were a woman"pg. 44. I know that losing a very close person is very painful, as >I have had experiences with grandparents, great-grandparents, and other family members, but I can't imagine how it is to lose someone that you treat, care, and think as your brother. I have seen it must be very, but very painful, because the anonymous author if Gilgamesh spent a whole chapter saying "May the wild ass in the mountains braying mourn. May the furtive panthers mourn for Enkidu"pg. 45, and a lot of these. He talks about panthers, wild asses, pathways, passes, harlots, priests, kings, grasslands, gazelles, rivers, milks, and all sorts of stuff that he says should mourn for Enkidu. Also, he starts to think "Enkidu has died. Must I die too?"pg. 48. I think that this whole death of Enkidu and mourning has turned Gilgamesh's head upside-down and that for the rest of the story we are going to see the change in Gilgamesh's purpose of life and personality and I think he will drastically change. Without having read the end, I foresee that as Gilgamesh is so powerful he is going to want a revenge and is going to make a complot against the gods that have killed Enkidu. Probably, I think, the rest of the story is Gilgamesh finding a way to not be killed and to make something to the gods. I will use my blog as a reference and see what happens later on in the epic.