III & IV

When Enkidu died, Gilgamesh cried day after day for his lost friend. He was wandering around alone and it was sad to him because he has never been alone. He figured that he wasn't anymore than a king, he was just a man who was lost. He suddenly got very angry and even insane and he tired to bring Enkidu back to life. He decided that he was going to try and find the secret of enternal life. So he set out to find Utnapishtim, the one who survived the flood and death, the one who knew the secret!
Gilgamesh comes to the mountains of Mashu and has to get by the Scorpian people who guard the gate. They said that noone has passed through this gate. There is only death and grief. Gilgamesh said that he has gone through enough grief that he could handle it. Through his travels through the gate he would always think of Enkidu and say his name over and over again thinking that he might be there with him. He gets down on himself and starts crying but then remembers why he is taking this journey alone and it is to find the secret to eternal life so he can bring his friend back. Gilgamesh had to go over the sea of Death to get to Utnapishtim and he had to find his boatman Urshanabi. He could show him the way. Urshanabi told him to take his ax and cut down a lot of trees and they will be the poles to push him across the sea of death. He sea sail on the sea and Ur told him not to let the waters touch his hand and take extra poles with him.
When he reached Untapishtim he told him what he all went through to get here and that he needs to help his friend. Utna. said that brings him hope that one can come this far to bring life to a friend. Untapishtim told Gilgamesh that people were planning on a big flood and that Ea told him that he needed to pack up this loved things and and build a ship. The floods came everyone died and wasn't on the ship. Utnapishtim couldn't believe that they all had to die. He wondered why they all had to face death. Ea came and touched his forehead and said that he and his wife shall be known as gods now. He didn't want to become immortal. He envys the freedom the mortals have.
Utnapishtim then tells Gilgamesh that you cannot stop death and that it a natural thing in life that just has to happen. You can't bring people back from death either. Utnapishtim told him that there is a plant in the river, it has thorns that will prick your hands but will give you a new life. Gilgamesh tied stones to his feet and jumping into the river. He saw the plant and when he reached it he grapped it and it cut him sending his red blood into the river. Gilgamesh took a bath in the water and left the plant alone and a serpant came from the water and ate it. When he saw that the skin from the serpant was left he sat down and started crying.
He recognizes his loss and returned to Uruk. He asked people if they ever heard of a man named Enkidu and no one had.
Gilgamesh then looked at the walls and what his people had all gotten done and for a moment all his grief and hurt passed from him.