. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . of them could contain six measures of dedicated them to Shamash, and suspended them on the corners of thealtar; then he washed his hands in the Euphrates, re-entered Uruk, andpassed through the streets in triumph. A riotous banquet ended the day, buton that very night Eabani felt himself haunted by an inexplicable and balefuldream, and fortune abandoned the two heroes. Gilgames had cried in theintoxication of success to the women of Uruk : Who shines forth among thevaliant ? Who is glorious above all men ? Gilgames shines forth amongthe
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . of them could contain six measures of dedicated them to Shamash, and suspended them on the corners of thealtar; then he washed his hands in the Euphrates, re-entered Uruk, andpassed through the streets in triumph. A riotous banquet ended the day, buton that very night Eabani felt himself haunted by an inexplicable and balefuldream, and fortune abandoned the two heroes. Gilgames had cried in theintoxication of success to the women of Uruk : Who shines forth among thevaliant ? Who is glorious above all men ? Gilgames shines forth amongthe valiant, Gilgames is glorious above all men. 3 Ishtar made him feel hervengeance in the destruction of that beauty of which he was so proud ; she 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudiu, from a Chalilœan intaglio in the New York Museum (Menant,Recherches sur la Glyptique orientale, vol. i. pl. i., No. 1). The original is about an inch and a haltin height. * Haupt, Das Babylonische Nimrodepos, r>p. 48-94, 11. Haupt, op. cit., p. 49, II. THE SEARCH FOR TEE TREE OF LIFE—THE SCORPION-MEN. 583 covered him with leprosy from head to foot, and made him an object of horrorto his friends of the previous day. A life of pain and a frightful death—healone could escape them who dared to go to the confines of the world in quest ofthe Fountain of Youth and the Tree of Life which were said to be there hidden ;1but the road was rough, unknown, beset by dangers, and no one of those whohad ventured upon it had ever returned. Gilgames resolved to brave everyperil rather than submit to his fate, and proposed this fresh adventure to hisfriend Eabani, who, notwithstanding his sad forebodings, consented to accom-pany him. They killed a tiger on the way, but Eabani was mortally woundedin a struggle in which theyengaged in the neighbour-hood of Nipur, and breathedhis last after an agony oftwelve days duration. Gilgames wept bitterlyover his friend Eabani, gro-velling on the bare se
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