The relation to our brief discussion of "Catharsis" relates to Gilgamesh realization because after all, Gilgamesh is all about how civilization started and how it should be. It is a tale full of the culture during the Mesopotamian age, the origin of the western culture. It is clear that the story is based on the idea of divine rights and existence of gods that rule the world. The prompts that Gilgamesh confront his own mortality was a plant of immortality at the bottom of the ocean, Gilgamesh gets it, but a snake steals it.

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