Which is why in their distress the people cry out to Anu
"Help us" they plead; "Send some deliverance.
Make all things right in the world and we will be grateful"

And, as sometimes happens, god listens
And grants what is asked

For every force a counter-force
For every imbalance a balance
For every tip of the scales a tip in the opposite direction

Enkidu -wild and untamed
The strength of dozens of beasts
Subhuman to the human force
Yet a rival to the king

Seen by a woodsman's son who tells his father
What he has seen and told in turn
To take a sacred prostitute from the temple
To the forest to couple with him
Who will then loose his strength, his wildness, his ways,
Who will be no threat

Who can resist her?
Enkidu can't, no man can, no man has
For she is Shamhat and that is everything

He does not resists
His sinks into the pit of lust and love and is lost
Looses his powers and total wildness
But gains a human understanding

This is the bargain he has unwittingly made
This is what he has subjected himself to
Now he is mortal in every sense

So he weeps, tears that any man might weep
For what he has lost and what he has gained
And the desolation in between

"But I will take you to the city
I will show you great things
I will introduce you to the king-
The only man fit to be your friend"

All is not well in the kingdom of Gilgamesh's mind
Dreams trouble his nights and he cannot free himself of them
Signs from out of the world appear in the world-
A meteorite, an axe, and the people celebrate
And he is forced to compete with both