... bathe in a pool a serpent came and ate the plant that was to give him his youth. He returns to Uruk with the ferryman Urshanabi and tells him that the mighty wall of his city is the proper work for a human being not the search for eternal life. In the end Gilgamesh learns that his destiny was not everlasting life, but his ... ...

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