This being accepted death only when he found that the life-giving plant he sought had been stolen by a snake.
This being accepted death only when he found that the life-giving plant he sought had been stolen by a snake. After his death, he was considered a minor deity associated with Tammuz, since he himself also descended to the underworld. This man's former rival and later companion was created from clay by Aruru. This man's search for Utnapishtim is largely inspired by that companion's death. That companion helped this man slay the bull of heaven, and lived in the wilderness with beasts before being tamed by a temple prostitute. Identify, for 10 points, this friend of Enkidu, a Sumerian king of Uruk who fails to attain immortality in his namesake Mesopotamian epic.
This being accepted death only when he found that the life-giving plant he sought had been stolen by a snake.
Gilgamesh [or Bilgames]