The Giant Slain-Gilgamesh tablets 4 and 5

These tablets are of great significance to the story as we read further on. In the beginning of tablet four Enkidu and Gilgamesh embark on a journey to slay the giant monster Humbaba. Gilgamesh sets out explaining to his mother and the council that he will fight many unusual enemies, things he has never fought before. “He will face fighting as he has not known, and will travel on a road that he does not know!” I believe that these enemies and fightin are not like the physical fighting we are used to. They say he does not know suck fightin and Gilgamesh has fought other men and people. Therefore it makes sense that they are referring to an enemy that is not a man or beast. I believe they speak of death, plague, famine, sin, hunger, evil itself. And when the two companions arrive at the cedar forest and prepare to battle Humbaba they know swords and physical strength will have no affect on the evil thing. “Humbaba's roar is a Flood; his mouth is Fire, his breath Death! He can hear any rustling in his forest 100 leagues away! Who would go down into his forest! Who among even the Igigi gods can confront him?In order to keep the Cedar safe, Enlil assigned him as a terror to human beings." These are examples of a foe unlike anything we know. How can we triumph over all these things these powers that surpass our own. But Enkidu and Gilgamesh defeated Humbaba, they destroyed him and when he pleaded for his life Gilgamesh did what Humbaba would have done in his position. He finished the evil off, once and for all.