Matthew LaCroix

Danny, first of all, check this out.

It says right there that this is Gilgamesh, by the way, who the story, if you're not familiar with it, if anyone has not read the Epic of Gilgamesh, have you read the Epic of Gilgamesh?

Okay, so let me just give a little, a brief synopsis of what it is, because then you'll have to understand it versus what this is in context, okay?

So in the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh is a tyrant king.

Not so mythical.

He's a tyrant king of the city of Uruk.

See that?

And he goes on a journey to find the secrets of immortality and learn all these lessons.

And he meets a companion along the way named Enkidu.

And there's all these astronomical connections that are allegorical and they're not real.

But there's a journey still.

There's a journey that exists in it.

Why?

Because Gilgamesh is with his companion Enkidu, and they're on this adventure, and Enkidu dies.

He gets killed.

And Gilgamesh is so moved and so affected by this that he fears his own mortality so much that he becomes obsessed with this journey of finding immortality.

That's what the Epic of Gilgamesh, the entire thing is about that, okay?

He wants to live forever.

Very noble of him, right?

So in the Epic of Gilgamesh, if you read it, the way he finds how to, well, at least the way to be immortal, even though you can't be immortal, we'll say that, is through this hero, Zayasudra.