Odyssey/Gilgamesh Travel Log
Among the bronze fortified walls of Uruk lives gilgamesh, king of kings, half god, half mortal and ruler of Uruk. After the events of gilgamesh shamhat returned to the temple and Gilgamesh finally assumed his duties as a king. Shortly after a year had gone by he received a letter from the west. From a of man needing a extra crew member. This was the great adventurer Odysseus, great trickster and king of Ithaca was in need of a adventurer since losing all of his crew to the effects of the Trojan war. It had been 2 weeks since Odysseus had sent the letter and during that time he awaited gilgamesh's reply. While he was loading the boat for departure Odysseus saw something in the distance. Approaching was a horde of horses followed by a great dust cloud, out of the middle came a great stallion and on top of the horse was a giant of a man. Gilgamesh had arrived in the most arrogant way possible. After a short introduction of measuring phallic members and accomplishments they had decided that they would head back to Ithaca to see his wife. As they set sail a foul wind blew ragged and ferocious throwing their boat off course. When they cleared the storm they found themselves utterly lost and stranded at open sea. The next morning they landed on a small island, with one woman on the beach. This woman was calypso, prisoner of the island and it's only inhabitant. Calypso managed to persuade the duo to stay a couple nights for food and refreshment, on the second night Gilgamesh noticed something was a foot. Noticing calypso’s advances on the Married king of Ithaca and her plans of keeping him here indefinitely. …show more content…
Instead of thinking about this problem and finding a non-physical solution, Gilgamesh instead swats calypso, knocking her out cold. While in the moment Gilgamesh grabs the drunken Odysseus and drags him back to the ship before he can destroy his marital bond. With lots of kicking and screaming and bumps over the head Odysseus relents and allows them both to go and navigate there way back to Ithaca. Whilst on the way there they realize they need to stop for supplies, seeing a nearby a palace Odysseus can only guess that it's the palace of Alcinous, king of the phaeacians. Landing upon the shore the duo had to decide how to approach the situation of getting in the palace, Odysseus as the trickster he is wants to wear a disguise and surprise the king. Gilgamesh seeing no point in this just walks up in and through the palace gates forcing Odysseus to follow. Upon entrance they realize that they have walked into a festival of Poseidon, god of the sea. Although perturbed the festival’s participates didn't show any signs of attacking. In the middle of the group of party goers was the king, seeing Odysseus he hailed him as a hero and absolutely demanded a story of him for crashing through the festival rudely before he was allowed to restock his supplies. On this request Odysseus recites his encounter with Achilles and how he found his identity. During the Trojan war Odysseus was tasked with finding out what Achilles looked like, in the women's quarters he laid out weapons and saw which one was the most interested. Before he left he blew a battle horn and Achilles jumped directly into action revealing himself to Odysseus. When he was done reciting his tale Gilgamesh’s commented that he would have just challenged the man and called him a coward in front of the troops for dressing in women's clothing. With a boat resupplied and reapplied with tar, they continued on their journey along the surreal coast. Offended by Gilgamesh's trespassing of the festival grounds, the sea god threw 9 days and 9 nights of storms on the duo casting their ship off course once again. Upon escaping these storms they found themselves on the coast line of a land of sheep herding giants spanning a hundreds of yards, covered by Rocky crags and windswept hills. Gilgamesh fondly thought how this land resembled the land before and around the Cedar Forest when adventuring with inkudu. Coming on to the rocky shore Gilgamesh and Odysseus were greeted by sheep, tons
Among the bronze fortified walls of Uruk lives gilgamesh, king of kings, half god, half mortal and ruler of Uruk. After the events of gilgamesh shamhat returned to the temple and Gilgamesh finally assumed his duties as a king. Shortly after a year had gone by he received a letter from the west. From a of man needing a extra crew member. This was the great adventurer Odysseus, great trickster and king of Ithaca was in need of a adventurer since losing all of his crew to the effects of the Trojan war. It had been 2 weeks since Odysseus had sent the letter and during that time he awaited gilgamesh's reply. While he was loading the boat for departure Odysseus saw something in the distance. Approaching was a horde of horses followed by a great dust cloud, out of the middle came a great stallion and on top of the horse was a giant of a man. Gilgamesh had arrived in the most arrogant way possible. After a short introduction of measuring phallic members and accomplishments they had decided that they would head back to Ithaca to see his wife. As they set sail a foul wind blew ragged and ferocious throwing their boat off course. When they cleared the storm they found themselves utterly lost and stranded at open sea. The next morning they landed on a small island, with one woman on the beach. This woman was calypso, prisoner of the island and it's only inhabitant. Calypso managed to persuade the duo to stay a couple nights for food and refreshment, on the second night Gilgamesh noticed something was a foot. Noticing calypso’s advances on the Married king of Ithaca and her plans of keeping him here indefinitely. …show more content…
Instead of thinking about this problem and finding a non-physical solution, Gilgamesh instead swats calypso, knocking her out cold. While in the moment Gilgamesh grabs the drunken Odysseus and drags him back to the ship before he can destroy his marital bond. With lots of kicking and screaming and bumps over the head Odysseus relents and allows them both to go and navigate there way back to Ithaca. Whilst on the way there they realize they need to stop for supplies, seeing a nearby a palace Odysseus can only guess that it's the palace of Alcinous, king of the phaeacians. Landing upon the shore the duo had to decide how to approach the situation of getting in the palace, Odysseus as the trickster he is wants to wear a disguise and surprise the king. Gilgamesh seeing no point in this just walks up in and through the palace gates forcing Odysseus to follow. Upon entrance they realize that they have walked into a festival of Poseidon, god of the sea. Although perturbed the festival’s participates didn't show any signs of attacking. In the middle of the group of party goers was the king, seeing Odysseus he hailed him as a hero and absolutely demanded a story of him for crashing through the festival rudely before he was allowed to restock his supplies. On this request Odysseus recites his encounter with Achilles and how he found his identity. During the Trojan war Odysseus was tasked with finding out what Achilles looked like, in the women's quarters he laid out weapons and saw which one was the most interested. Before he left he blew a battle horn and Achilles jumped directly into action revealing himself to Odysseus. When he was done reciting his tale Gilgamesh’s commented that he would have just challenged the man and called him a coward in front of the troops for dressing in women's clothing. With a boat resupplied and reapplied with tar, they continued on their journey along the surreal coast. Offended by Gilgamesh's trespassing of the festival grounds, the sea god threw 9 days and 9 nights of storms on the duo casting their ship off course once again. Upon escaping these storms they found themselves on the coast line of a land of sheep herding giants spanning a hundreds of yards, covered by Rocky crags and windswept hills. Gilgamesh fondly thought how this land resembled the land before and around the Cedar Forest when adventuring with inkudu. Coming on to the rocky shore Gilgamesh and Odysseus were greeted by sheep, tons