Gilgamesh Tablets II and III

These tablets tell of the events where Enkidu is brought into civilization by the temple prostitute. She takes him to Uruk where Enkidu fights Gilgamesh because he is going to sleep with a future bride. When the fight is over, they embraced, they kissed, and took each other by the hand. Then, Gilgamesh decides to go after Huwawa and Enkidu warns him of Huwawa's power. Enkidu decides to go with Gilgamesh and is adopted by Gilgamesh's mother, Rimat-Ninsun.

I found it interesting how even though Enkidu is the wild part of civilization and Gilgamesh is the civilized, Enkidu is the more careful and thoughtful one while Gilgamesh is more reckless and ruthless one. It shows how even though we have civilized, we are not necessarily better. We have civilized but values have been the price. We become too shure of ourselves and too cocky putting ourselves in trouble. Gilgamesh says that he is not afraid of death and his children will have fame while Enkidu tells him to be careful with Huwawa due to its strength. We have to keep these values and stop ourselves from being too cocky because it will cause trouble for us.