Gilgamesh and the Inevitable

meone would we even care for them? We would most certainly recognize that they would be with us forever, making every second spent with them insignificant to the infinite sprawl of time. When we lose someone, we achieve true love for them because every second in their presence was immeasurably significant relative to our limited existence.
             In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the gods are forever. They are not tragic and thus they cannot love as humans do. Perhaps this why Ishtar is the goddess of both love and war. She creates love in mankind but in her immortality she is ultimately indifferent to their experiences and cr
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