The Creator Kills The Creation

Earth has two sons, animals and nature. They have always gone along during thousands of years, and they both needed each other to survive. All animals depend in nature, well nature is the home of all of them, and gives them the food and conditions they need to survive. Meanwhile, nature needs animals to reproduce, and spread through out of every inch of Earth.

This connection had never been broken, until humans arrived. In their early years, as Leavers, they worked together, and had a bound. Enkidu in his yearly years represented this stage; he lived surrounded with animals and in the forest. “He feeds upon the grasslands with the gazelles; visits the watering places with the creatures.” (pg.5) Nevertheless, Leavers slowly became Takers by making their own environment, and getting from nature, but not giving him back. Enkidu also represents this moment of evolution, when he is taken into civilization and prefers to stand loyal to Gilgamesh than he’s homeland.

This separation was the end of a relationship, and the beginning of disaster. Since this event, humans have thought of themselves as the legimit rulers and owners of the world. With their power they have slowly destroyed the world, and now it is headed to destruction. Gilgamesh characterizes this step in humanity. You can recognize it by the unjust rules he gave his city and the need he had to destroy the cedar forest.
What seems very strange is the reason of human creation. Every animal has a beneficial purpose on Earth except for humans. If an animal tries to oppose to nature they are eliminated, but humans have been able to go against it and still be in Earth.
Most of the times, when something is created, only the creator can destroy it. For example a rock made by lava can only be melted easily with lava. Or in the case of snake poison, when someone is poisoned, that same poison can heel the injury. But in the case of humans is different, nature created humans, but it hasn’t been able to destroy us, instead humans we are destroying nature.
For that reason, I think humans will end up killing themselves. I guess that we will create such a negative environment that we will kill ourselves. Meanwhile, nature will be able to heel itself again, and slowly restore everything we took from it. In the text, this event is vaguely represented, when Gilgamesh doesn’t receive his eternal life, therefore Gilgamesh and what it represent, sooner or later will end up extinction.