Skyrim Mod:Arquebus/Ancient Dwarven Book III
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Book Information Ancient Dwarven Book III |
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the heroes enter the cedar forest humbaba the guardian of the cedar forest insults and threatens them he accuses enkidu of betrayal and vows to disembowel gilgamesh and feed his flesh to the birds gilgamesh is afraid but with some encouraging words from enkidu the battle commences the mountains quake with the tumult and the sky turns black the god shamash sends thirteen winds to bind humbaba and he is captured humbaba pleads for his life and gilgamesh pities him he offers to make gilgamesh king of the forest to cut the trees for him and to be his slave enkidu however argues that gilgamesh should kill humbaba to establish his reputation forever humbaba curses them both and gilgamesh dispatches him with a blow to the neck as well as killing his seven sons the two heroes cut down many cedars including a gigantic tree that enkidu plans to fashion into a gate for the temple of enlil they build a raft and return home along the euphrates with the giant tree and possibly the head of humbaba
Notes
- As an Easter egg, the text is actually an English summary of the Epic of Gilgamesh.