Tablets IV and V, A Dream upon a Quest

The quest to kill Huwawa begins and Enkidu and Gilgamesh submit to arduous days of travel following Shamash, the god of the sun. Everyday they survive under the water that Enkidu finds and the shelters Enkidu builds to protect from the wind. Every night Gilgamesh`s sleep is disturbed by fearful dreams that are later interpreted by his wild companion as fortunate. Gilgamesh’s dreams take a great role in this part of the story, as they keep the quest going and remind them that they are not alone. Sometimes dreams may really mean something and can help us find out how some things are affecting us as well as find what some things that are happening or that are to come make us feel.
Both of them, as humans in general, are meant to conquer and overcome what is in their way; in this special mission they are to conquer the cedar forest to end with the demon, enemy of the gods, Huwawa. As Enkidu and Gilgamesh start feeling his deadly aura and it becomes inevitable to find his face everywhere they looked, a new fear makes them indecisive and in one point they consider returning to the plains and escaping the danger of their purpose, but they support each other and continue. As Gilgamesh faces Huwawa at last and receives the help from Shamash, the demon intends to convince him of folding his purpose and tries to turn him against Enkidu. “” Huwawa said: Do not listen to him who has neither father nor mother, child of wilderness. When Enlil hears of this, the fisrt of gods, the god of wilderness Enkidu knows that there will be a curse because of this.”(pg. 28) Enkidu convinces him of the contrary and Huwawa is finally put to death. In older posts I have insisted that Gilgamesh is like the culture described in Ishmael but now I have changed my mind and consider that that inner voice in our society is more likely to be Huwawa. He can be seen now as the evil conscience within all, one that tells us to do what is wrong as if it were right, and one that is hard to kill and must be destroyed by all humankind working together. The gate to be built for the city represents what separates civilization from nature , the raft they build to return represents a new beginning, and the head of Huwawa represents the end of a fear and a proof of how two, almost opposites, worked perfectly together as a team.