for royalty, Who clothed you with noble garments, And made you have fair Gilgamesh for a comrade? The same theme appears when the barmaid advises Gilgamesh to abandon his search for immortality. As for you, Gilgamesh [...] Let your head be washed; bathe in water. Pay heed to a little one that holds on to your hand; Let a spouse delight in your bosom. Enkidu’s mistakes that makes him prisoner of the netherworld forever resembles the barmaids advices. Which made the dead recognize him as a live man, a civilized man. He kissed his beloved wife, He struck his hated wife; He kissed his beloved son, He struck his hated son. As Jeffrey H. Tigay writes in his book The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic: Modern rediscovery The first translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh was produced in the early 1870s by George Smith, a scholar at the British Museum, who published the Flood story from Tablet XI in 1880 under the title The Chaldean Account of Genesis. There, Enkidu's name was originally misread as Eabani. See also Gilgamesh in popular culture Master of Animals Notes References External links Characters in the Epic of Gilgamesh Sidekicks in literature Mythic humanoids