... gods they would be rewarded. They envisioned a dark, shadowy and disagreeable afterlife, so they had nothing to look forward to. 4. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a celebrated poem where the poet tells of a search of a meaning of death. In the poem, Gilgamesh, a king who ruled in about 2700 BC., travels to find the secret of immortality. But, in the end does not find it ... and is left to contemplate the reality of death. He finds that it is equally important to find the joy in the present. The epic once again shows the pessimism of the ... and other operations. They also based their number ...

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