I like places like this, " he announced. I like old places too, " Josh said, "but what's to like about a place like this?" The king spread his arms wide. "What do you see?" Josh made a face. "Junk. Rusted tractor, broken plow, old bike." Ahh..but I see a tractor that was once used to till these fields. I see the plow it once pulled. I see a bicycle carefully placed out of harm's way under a table." Josh slowly turned again, looking at the items once more. And i see these things and I wonder at the life of the person who carefully stored the precious tractor and plow in the barn out of the weather, and placed their bike under a homemade table." Why do you wonder?" Josh asked. "Why is it even important?" Because someone has to remember, " Gilgamesh snapped, suddenly irritated. "Some one has to remember the human who rode the bike and drove the tractor, the person who tilled the fields, who was born and lived and died, who loved and laughed and cried, the person who shivered in the cold and sweated in the sun." He walked around the barn again, touching each item, until his palm were red with rust." It is only when no one remembers, that you are truely lost. That is the true death. Michael Scott
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The story of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, who after losing his arms in a battle, traveled to the land of the dead to meet with an individual known as Enkidu. During their meeting, Enkidu offered to take Gilgamesh's place so that he could be reunited with the woman he loved. However, when they arrived at the gates of heaven, they were denied entrance for not being "worthy" enough to be there. After Death After death, Gilgamesh was told to go back down to earth and gather the souls of the people who had died. This meant that he would have to travel up and down the land seeking out these souls and pulling them into hell.

Gilgamesh was reluctant to accept this task but Enkidu convinced him that it was his duty as a good king to do it. As they walked along together towards hell, they met with many gruesome things along the way. They came across a group of demons who were trying to lure souls away from heaven by threatening them with fire and asking them if they wanted to become demons.

After seeing what hell was like, Gilgamesh begged Enkidu not to send him down there any more. However, Enkidu would not give up on his friend and continued on until they finally reached hell itself. It was filled with fire and brimstone where all manner of evil creatures were torturing people for various reasons while some were simply left alone in their suffering After seeing this place, Gilgamesh was even more convinced that he had made a terrible mistake in going there and pleaded with Enkidu once again not to send him back down there. His friend refused but promised that he would meet him again on earth after his mission had been completed.

So Gilgamesh agreed to return home but only after completing his mission. When they returned from hell however, they found that their city had been taken over by a tyrant named Humbaba who had been killing local farmers for meat and kidnapping young men for sacrifices which caused fear among the people of Uruk so much so that no one wanted to go outside of their houses but instead lived inside in fear. It is because of this fear however that a hero named Beowulf came forth and killed Humbaba in a bloody battle so that hope could reign again in Uruk Gilgamesh did not live long after this but continued on doing heroic deeds until he too died at age 773 according

Source: The Sorceress

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